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Instead of placing the author's photograph on this page, 
as is customary, I have given this place to nny little 
nephew, Wilbert, who is more worthy than I, and who is 
now asleep, "safe in the arms of Jesus." (The reason 
will be nnade known later on.) 

PETER ALBERT PETRIE. 



"YE SHALL KNOW \1 
• THE TRUTH, 

AND 

THE TRUTH SHALL 
MAKE YOU FREE." 



BY 

PETER ALBERT PETRIE. 



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CONTENTS. 







PAGES 


Frontispiece _, 




1 


Contents. _ _ 




._ _ 5 


Dedication 




„— - 6 


Preface 




7 




CHAPTER I. 




THhi Eternal, 


Unchangeable Laws - - 


-» 9 




CHAPTER n. 




Prayer 




___.__>„_- 48 



CHAPTER m. 
Centering Our Affections — -^ .-^ .„„„_„_„ 58 

CHAPTER IV. 
The Power of Our Beliefs - „„-.„-_«^ -„_„ 67 

CHAPTER y. 
**Ye Must b:. Born Again" _._ „„_. 72 

CHAPTER YI. 
Christianity and Creeds „. --.108 

CHAPTER Vn. 
Food for the Body and Soul .= . 1 „. 161 

CHAPTER Vin. 
Vocation _^~ 174 

CHAPTER IX. 
A Prophecy — -,= ., 196 

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TO THE TRUTH-SEEKERS 

OF 

HIl Classes^ BU ColorSt Hll Nationalities, 

This book is affectionately dedicated by your humble servant and 

brother^ who is not ashamed to own you as his brother or 

sister of the great family of God, No matter if the 

outside of your ' 'cuf^ is blacky or white ^ or yellow ^ 

or red^ or brown, if only the inside of the 

' 'cup and the platter^^ is pure and clean. 



PREFACR, 

The purpose of this work is to show, that there are 
latent powers within every soul. Powers which God 
has created and implanted in every one, of which we 
are to use for the upbuilding of his cause and king- 
dom; powers of the soul which are lying dormant, of 
which we know little at present and of which few have 
ever dreamed; powers of the soul which are used to 
direct others to go and claim their true estate and 
right inheritance that belongs to every one who is a 
seeker of truth, love and life ; powers of the soul that 
will guide us into all truth, and do away with all blind 
beliefs and fogyisms, with which the soul will not 
allow itself to become satisfied, nor anything that is 
short of truth and love; powers of the soul of which 
if all would know, they would be glad to come to Jesus, 
who is ''the way^ the truth and the life.'' 

Powers of the soul which bring forth a feeling and 
love for the whole human family— be they rich, clean 
and tidy, or poor, dirty and ragged ; or be they edu- 
cated, refined, loving, or ignorant, wayward or hate- 
ful. It matters not if they are white, red, yellow or 
black ; for the wrong acts or deeds of any of these, the 
latent powers of the soul step in and say, * ' Father, for- 
give them; for they know not what they do. Please 
give them another chance; only one more, if not * sev- 
enty times seven.' " 

The latent powers of the soul reveal that the best 
prayer for the repenting sinner is that of the poor 



8 Preface. 

publican—** God be merciful to me a sinner." These 
powers also reveal that he who is without sin, let him 
cast the first stone at his neighbors. 

The latent powers of the soul likewise reveal the 
fact that I can be an active member of any church, sing 
in the choir, be a member of all its different organiza- 
tions, and do all these things with the best of my abil- 
ity, yet lack one thing. 

The latent powers of the soul also reveal that Relig- 
ion and Science are twin sisters instead of opposites or 
enemies. Both their foundations are based upon law 
or truth. Both are used to help us get nearer to God ; 
for Jesus not only preached the truth, but demon- 
strated what he taught. 

Are you living as peacefully and happily as you 
would like to live? Do you feel you are after some- 
thing you know not what? Would you like to know 
more of the things that bring contentment? 

If so, please read what I have written and then turn 
to the Book that settles all trouble. Read the New 
Testament first, that you may understand the Old. 

If I can say anything or do anything to show others 
that they can not travel life's journey alone, the pur- 
pose of the author will have been accomplished. 

Therefore I present this work to those who know 
little or nothing of their God-given powers and souls' 
welfare; to assist those who have learned something 
about it and wish to know more; and to supply a 
handy reference to those who know it all. 

The Author. 
Moon Run, Pa., January, 1903. 



"Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the 
Truth Shall Make You Free." 



CHAPTER I. 

No better investment of your spare time 

Than to grasp the meaning of each little line. 

Hear the truth of this little rhyme, 

Of all the sin and curse and crime 

That has been committed in days gone by 

By men and women; and I'll tell you why — 

Because Ignorance has said: 

*'Let might be right — 
And right be slight (neglect) — 
And slight be sight — 
And sight be smite — 
And smite be fight — 
And fight be life— 
And life be hell or strife:" 
And all on account 
Of the great paramount — 

Because men and women neglect light and lose sight — 

That they close their "fists," and pull the strings too tight. 

The males pull the strings of the fingers till they cnrve. 

And the draw-string of the heart that it will not swerve. 

The females in this line are generous, far more; 

But they pull on the strings till their sides are sore! 

Oh, would that we all let loose of these strings! — 

Oh, what health and happiness, when free from these things! 

Have you read the Preface? If not, please read it 

that you may understand and get all the benefits. 

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10 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

It is said, **A11 truth must pass through three 
stages.'' First, we say, it conflicts with the law or 
Bible; next we try to crucify and cover it up; lastly, 
after we see we can not bury truth, or keep it buried, 
and our ignorance and superstitions roll away, we 
begin to say, ''I have always believed it." Yes— 

"Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;" 
But error, crushed, sinks deep within. 

There is good in every one, if it were only allowed 
to come forth. It is often crushed out or withheld in 
one way or the other. 

As this work treats on the powers of the soul, in 
this chapter I wish to speak first of the contentment 
and happiness that is derived from a better knowl- 
edge of the laws of health, and how to heal and be 
healed. 

No one has, in and of himself or herself, the power 
to heal; all is done by and with the compliance and 
application of the unchangeable laws of God— or, as 
Jesus so lovingly designated it, '^My Father which is 
in heaven, he doeth the work." 

Therefore, in order that we may have life, peace, 
health, happiness and prosperity, we must learn how 
to get back into harmony with the laws of our being. 

(If some of you should get your feet wet while 
walking through the dewy pages of this book, caus- 
ing you to become chilly, I say travel on, and before 
you reach the end, the Son of truth, faith and love 
will shine so bright that some of you will be hot 
enough ; some warm enough ; many comfortable ; and 
a few miserable.) 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 11 

The only way to become perfect, even as our Father 
in heaven is perfect (which no one living to-day is), 
is to learn more of Jesus, the way-shower who said, *'I 
came that ye may have life, and have it more abund- 
antly. " ^ ' Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall 
make you free. ' ' 

It is a little of this truth which Jesus taught and 
demonstrated while here on earth that I wish to help 
make more plain to all those who are willing to hear 
of good thoughts, new thoughts, or rather old 
thoughts; for there is nothing new under the sun, or 
unknown to God; but there are a great many things 
unkno\Mi to us, or, in other words, many things yet 
unearthed or come to light. Everything, good and evil, 
shall be brought from under cover. Every heavenly 
and earthly thing shall some day be revealed. 

Jesus says, ^'Fear them not therefore: for there is 
nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, 
that shall not be known." This saying of Jesus is 
like all the other sayings of his, having a twofold 
meaning. For instance, the temporal meaning is, that, 
no matter whatsoever we do, be it good or evil, it will 
leak out one way or the other and generally at a time 
and place where and when we least expect it. Remem- 
ber our SINS will find us out. ^^A murderer can not 
keep his secret." He may be able to keep it a long 
time, but it will come out. The truth of all matters 
will come out, even if it does take centuries of time; 
but it is coming, and always will come until the Lord's 
Prayer is fulfilled. 

The spiritual meaning of this same verse is, after 
we have stripped ourselves from all falsehood and 



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12 'Te Shall Enow the Truth, cmd 

know what *' truth" means and is we shall be free. 
**For when the Spirit of truth has made thee free, thou 
art free indeed." The entire meaning of this verse is, 
there is nothing in heaven and earth that shall not 
some day be revealed or made known. 

I have said before, in the Preface of this book, that 
it is my heart 's desire that you will first read the New 
Testament after reading this book. The reason will 
be made plain to you by referring to the sayings of 
Jesus and the Apostles themselves. I am not going to 
give you my words for doing so ; but will use my words 
to direct you to the Christ idea, mind, thought, 
Spirit. 

The Apostles speak very plainly that the laws which 
were given by Moses are very good; but they are not 
complete. They lack in some things, which Jesus came 
and fulfilled and made complete. 

The prophets prophesied of one who should come and 
\ show us the way back to the Father's house from 
• which we all have strayed. 

Notice, in the following sayings, how strict Jesus 
is in some things, and how liberal in others: 

^'Ye have heard that it was said by them of old 
times. Thou shalt not kill: and whosoever shall kill 
shall be in danger of the judgment : 

''But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with 
his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the 
judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, 
Raca [vain fellow], shall be in danger of the council: 
but whosoever shall say. Thou fool, shall be in danger 
of hell fire." 



The Truth Shall Make You Free." 13 

*^Ye have heard that it was said by them of old 
times, Thou shalt not commit adultery : 

'^But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a 
woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with 
her already in his heart." 

''It hath been said. Whosoever shall put away his 
wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement : 

''But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away 
his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth 
her to commit adultery; and whosoever shall marry 
her that is divorced, committeth adultery. ' ' 

"Ye have heard that it hath been said. An eye for 
an eye and a tooth for a tooth [just as the Golden 
Eule is even practiced to-day in this old rhyme, 

'Tip for tap, butter for fat; 

If you kin my dog, I'U kill your cat']: 

"But I say unto you. That ye resist not evil; but 
whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn 
to him the other also.'' 

"Ye have heard that it hath been said. Thou shalt 
love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. [Some more 
of the corrupt seed.] 

"But I say unto you^ Love your enemies, bless them 
that curse you, and pray for them which despitefuUy 
use you, and persecute you; 

"That ye may be the children of your Father which 
is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise on the 
evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and 
on the unjust.'' 

"For if ye love them which love you, what reward 
have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 



14 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

^*And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye 
more than others? do not even the publicans so? 

**Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which 
is in heaven is perfect." 

Jesus speaks very plainly to the multitudes and 
church people concerning John the Baptist : 

''What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A 
reed shaken in the wind? 

''But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed 
in soft raiment? Behold, they that wear soft clothing 
are in kings' houses. 

"But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? 
Yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. 

"For this is he of whom it is written. Behold, I 
send my messenger before thy face, which shall pre- 
pare thy way before thee." 

"Verily I say unto you. Among them that are born 
of women there hath not risen a greater than John 
the Baptist [not one in the Old Testament is greater 
than John] : notwithstanding, he that is least in the 
kingdom of heaven is greater than he [or, he— Christ- 
must increase, but I— John— must decrease]. 

"And from the days of John the Baptist until now 
the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the vio- 
lent take it by force." 

"For all the prophets and the law prophesied until 
John. 

"And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was 
for to come." 

"He that hath ears to hear let him hear. 

"But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 15 

like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling 
unto their fellows, 

''And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have 
not danced ; we have mourned unto you, and ye have 
not lamented." 

Listen to the severe criticism which Jesus has made 
upon a certain class of people of the Old Testament 
times. Who were they? 

''All that ever came before me are thieves and rob- 
bers: but the sheep did not hear them. [This may 
seem a hard saying, but remember what he said to 
Peter at one time, "Satan, get thee hence!"] 

' ' I am the door : by me if any man will enter in, he 
shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find 
pasture. 

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, 
and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, 
and have it more abundantly." 

Jesus, before he made his ascension, said unto his 
disciples : 

"These are the words which I spake unto you, while 
I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, 
which are written in the law of Moses, and in the 
prophets^ and in the psalms, concerning me." 

Whose words would naturally be the clearest to us 
for our guidance— the words of those who prophesied, 
or the teaching of Him who came as the fulfillment of 
those prophecies? I have answered this question al- 
ready, when I said, read the New Testament first, that 
you may understand the Old. "For the first shall be 
last, and the last first." 

Now listen to the apostles for an answer: 



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** Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: 
but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which 
are behind, and rea'ching forth unto those things which 
are before, 

*'I press toward the mark for the prize of the high 
calling of God in Christ Jesus. 

*^Let us, therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus 
minded: and if in anything ye be otherwise minded, 
God shall reveal even this unto you." 

'^If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are 
of all men most miserable." 

* ' Seeing then we have such hope, we use great plain- 
ness of speech: 

*^And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, 
that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to 
the end of that which is abolished: 

'^But their minds were blinded; for unto this day 
remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading 
of the old testament ; which vail is done away in Christ. 

*^But even unto this day, when Moses is read the vail 
is upon their hearts. 

^'Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the 
vail shall be taken away. 

' ' Now the Lord is that Spirit : and where the Spirit 
of the Lord is., there is liberty. 

''But we all with open face beholding as in a glass 
the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same 
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of 
the Lord." 

"And by him, all that believe are justified from all 
things, from which ye could not be justified by the 
law of Moses." 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 17. 

^'For the law was given by Moses, but grace and 
truth came by Jesus Christ." 

Now, settle it in your heart and mind that you will 
not be driven about by every wind and doctrine; but 
build your ''house" upon Christ, the truth, the rock; 
and by so doing you will build a heavenly foundation 
that shall have xo sand beneath it. 

The winds and rains and hails of public opinion shall 
beat against this house ; but it will not fall, because it 
is built upon the truth, the Rock Christ Jesus. 

The good old poet had the same thought as the 
apostles when he wrote : 

"In the world's broad field of battle, 
In the bivouac of life, 
Be not like dnmb driven cattle — 
Be a hero in the strife! 

"Trust no future, howe'er pleasant; 
Let the dead past bury its dead! 
Act, act in the living present. 
Heart within, and God o'erhead!" 

The only man and the best man that ever trod this 
globe who thoroughly understood the eternal, un- 
changeable laws of God, and taught the same to his 
disciples, was Jesus Christ. And the more we know of 
these laws, which have no variableness nor shadow of 
turning, and can get back into compliance and har- 
mony with them, the sooner we will be free. 

Remember, these laws of truth and love are in opera- 
tion the same to-day as when Jesus was upon the earth ; 
but our ignorance and superstitions hold us from com- 
plying perfectly with them. They are here ! They are 



tt 'Te Shall Enow the Truth, and 

ours ; but these laws will not operate for us as long as 
we will not bring ourselves into harmony with them. 

The question now arises, What must I do in order 
that I may be benefited by these eternal laws of our 
Father which is in heaven? 

Our first step is, ''He that cometh to God must be- 
lieve that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that 
diligently seek him." 

In order that we may please God, we must listen to 
that small voice within us, of which Jesus has said, 
* ' Neither shall they say, Lo here ! or, lo there ! for 
behold, the kingdom of God is within you.'' 

It is this kingdom, or small voice, that is within us, 
that we are to trust, to learn to rely upon in every- 
thing. The great trouble with us people of to-day is, 
we rely too much, or nearly altogether, on our senses 
and cents. Knov/ ye not that through our senses we 
can only obtain relative knowledge ? Oh, how often do 
our senses fool us or mislead us to the truth and facts 
of reality ! 

Take, for instance, the movements of the heavenly 
bodies. Do not our eyes make us believe that the sun 
and the moon revolve around the earth? One is a 
reality and the other is not; yet the movements look 
the same to us. Does it not seem to us that the earth 
stands still and only the moon revolves around it, when, 
in reality, both are moving? Yes, our senses bring 
relative knowledge only. 

We must rely henceforth and always, day by day, 
more and more on the intuitive side of our nature. 
We must learn to cultivate the avenues of the soul, and 
not the avenues of the senses. 



Tli6 Truth Shall Make You Freer 19 

When Jesus said, *'Be ye therefore perfect, even as 
your Father which is in heaven is perfect/' he meant 
that we can live a life as pure, and attune, as it were, 
the ears of our soul to hear the voice of the Infinite as 
well as he did, while he was on the earth. You know 
Jesus said, '^I speak not of myself, but that which I 
hear of my Father, that speak I." 

Let me illustrate to make these thoughts plain to you. 

Take, for instance, Marconi's wireless telegraphy. 
Marconi has believed and proved to the world that 
there is a law of electro-atmospherical-current vi- 
bration. And by his delicately constructed machine, 
he can both produce and receive these vibrations, and, 
of course, interpret them. 

Now, dear reader, let me tell you what I believe and 
know to be true— God has constructed or created within 
us a '' machine," far grander and exceedingly more 
delicate in construction than that of Marconi's, which 
is the human mechanism or the harp of a thousand 
strings, yea, a million strings; upon which the soul 
would gladly play and do her perfect work, were it 
not for the carnal hindrances. There is also for this 
'^ machine" a thought atmosphere, from which can be 
sent and received what we may call thought vibrations. 

Now let me show you how the Father and our Lord 
Jesus Christ proved that there are such laws, and espe- 
cially the law of thought vibration. 

For illustration we will say, The all-wise Creator in 
heaven has, or rather is, both the sending and receiv- 
ing ^ * instrument, ' ' and Jesus here on earth, who is 
without sin, has the intuitive side of his nature so com- 
pletely developed that his soul can see and hear the 



20 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

musical thought vibrations coming direct from the 
Father, and can easily interpret them. Christ Jesus, in 
this position,, is the receiving instrument. Now, what- 
soever he hears coming from the Father, he transfers 
or speaks to his disciples, and to the blind scribes and 
Pharisees. No wonder they said, .^' Never man spake 
like this man.'' For Jesus was the only man who 
could interpret every word and sound perfectly; be- 
cause he is the truth, the way, the love and the life. 
Moses, David and all the early prophets could catch 
the voice of the Infinite, but not interpret it so clearly, 
because they were not without sin. 

Therefore, in order that we also may catch a few 
of these daily vibrations of thought from the Book or 
direct, and be able to correctly interpret them, we 
must become humble as little children. '^For if ye will 
not become humble as little children, ye shall in nowise 
enter into the kingdom of God." To such who will 
not become humble, Jesus says: ^^Ye are they which- 
justify yourselves before men ; but God knoweth your 
hearts, for the things which are highly esteemed among 
men, are abomination in the sight of God." Also, 
'* Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have 
eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." 

Notice, I am not going to hold out to you or offer 
you some great inducements to come to the truth ; and 
then hold them so high and so far from you in this life 
that you can not partake of them now, like some of the 
so-called divines do : which is exactly on the same prin- 
ciple as a life insurance policy; which is a burden to 
the one who carries it through life, but a blessing to 



The Truth Shall MaJce You Free/' 21 

him after he dies, and a legacy for those he leaves 
behind. 

No, I am not going to do such a thing as that; I 
shall show you how you can enjoy the benefits to-day 
and every day, if you will listen closely to the re- 
mainder of this work. Moreover, I shall speak the 
truth and make it as plain as I can, regardless of 
public opinion and pharisaical, blind beliefs. 

Now we are ready to take up the study of such laws 
as, when complied with, will bring us into health, hap- 
piness, etc. These laws come not our way! No, not 
one inch ! We must come or go their way ! 

Let me tell you that our mind has absolute control 
over the body. Especially that part of the mind which 
*^ never slumbers, never sleeps,'' but keeps the blood 
flowing jQn in its regular course, from the day we drew, 
our first breath; when you and I became a living 
being. 

The mind or the soul is the man. It is that same 
man or mind which was also in Christ Jesus. It is the 
inner man which is ^^ created in the image and likeness 
of God." A mass of bones and flesh and brain is not 
the man, but is the temple wherein this unseen man 
dwells. The true or real man is ''the kingdom of God 
within you." It is this, man which should be set free 
that he may run and glorify the Father. It is this man 
who dwells round about in the breast, more than in the 
brain. This little man is a man of the heart. 

Now let me take you down to the very roots of this 
tree of truth, or God's law, in regard to our health, and 
allow me to begin unfolding the truth by referring 
again to the meek and lowly Nazarene, when he said: 



2-2 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

*'Ye have heard that it was said by them of old 
time, Thou shalt not commit adultery : 

''But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh upon 
a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery 
with her already in his heart." 

Now, why did Jesus make so strict a statement? 
Why was not, ''Thou shalt not commit adultery,'' 
enough ? The reason is this : In the generative organs 
of the male and female is not only produced that which 
we call seed-germs, but, besides this^ in these same 
organs is produced a substance which rebuilds the 
wasted parts of the body; thereby renewing us with 
health and vigor. Now, if we belong to the adulterous 
kind, we are wasting our substance with riotous living. 
As I have said before, the mind has complete control 
of the body. Therefore, if you let your mind dwell 
and think upon nothing but lustful pleasures, you are 
creating in your body, unconsciously, this seed-germ, 
which, after it is created, is of no further use to the 
body but to be cast out; and this is one of the causes 
of so many weak and debilitated people. 

The remedy for this trouble is this: Whosoever is a 
victim of this excessive indulgence, either in thought 
or deed, or both, is answered by Jesus when he said 
to the woman who was caught in an adulterous act, 
' ' Go, sin no more ! ' ' Or, go throw not away this vital, 
health-giving substance, but allow it to take the other 
inward avenue and rebuild your body. 

It is a deplorable fact, an awful shame, for such as 
are professing Christians, to have the brass to stand 
up in the different churches and offer long prayers to 
be heard and seen of men, and then turn right around 



The Truth Shall Male You Freer 23 

and engage in the lusts of the houses of prostitution ; 
or, even worse with some, take their lady friend to a 
summer resort for a few days and register at the hotel 
as man and wife. 

Can we honestly say of such that they have the love 
and truth of Christ in them ? I trow not ! To such I 
say, look in the looking-glass— the seventh chapter of 
the Book of Proverbs— that you may see yourself; and 
also as you should be seen. 

To such I say, repent ye, and sin no more : for fear 
a worse thing come upon you even in this life; and 
for fear of the unwelcome plaudit, ^^ Depart from me, 
ye workers of iniquity ; I never knew you ! ' ' 

Married people are not exempt from the transgres- 
sion of this law, even though the Bible does say, ** Mar- 
riage is honorable in all, and the bed is undefiled;" yet 
excessive indulgences, in any way or form, come under 
this law, '^Be ye temperate in all things;" or, in plainer 
words, '*Act not the hog in anything!'' I am exceed- 
ingly sorry that I must speak with such plainness of 
speech, but the signs of the times fully demand it. 

The chief subject of conversation, or what seems to 
have an awful grip upon the minds of many people, is 
the satisfying of their sensual emotions. There are 
many shocking deeds done, even by some of the best 
dressed people as well as by the poorly clad ones. Yea, 
and the grievous part for them is, the Lord our God 
knoweth them all. 

When God divinely established the marriage institu- 
tion, the sole purpose of this law was (and is) that 
man and wife were and are to be of one mind, one 
heart and one flesh; for their happiness and compan- 



24 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

ionship; and the chief end for God's glory and the per- 
petuation of the race, and not for excessive indul- 
gences. 

The apostle Paul said, ''The law is good if a man 
use it lawfully/' It is also said of those who lived 
long, long ago, long before Moses' day, that they were 
so pure and free from sexual excess as like unto the 
beasts of the field and forest of our day ; not sowing 
seed or semen where seed has already been put or 
sown. Therefore, in this respect, are we not lower than 
the beasts in this one thing? I cite to you these 
thoughts to arouse you from your sinful sleep. Paul 
refers us to nature for an answer, *'Doth not nature 
teach us so ? " 

Man, who has dominion over the things of the earth, 
or who is king of all creatures, should go and receive 
instruction from the lion, who is king of the beasts of 
the field and forest. Does not the lion choose his mate 
for life ? Does not the king of the fowls of the air do 
likewise? Does the lion or the eagle trouble their 
own or their neighbor's mate with their spurts of pas- 
sion or instinct? Do they not live together and stay 
together, without all this unnecessary and superfluous 
indulgence? Know ye not that God has prepared a 
far greater and deeper happiness for us to partake of, 
just as soon as we learn to break away from these 
fleshy things? 

man! little man! sleepy man! blind man! proud 
man! slothful man! foolish man! Is it any wonder 
that Job, David, and a few more, called us worms? ? 
man! wake up! know thyself! 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 25 

Man is real, man is inward, 

Man is not the outside crust: 
Man is spirit, marching upward; 

But sin and crust return to dust. 

Now you naturally want to know when this time was 
of pure, unadulterated, happy marriages and living. 
Listen to the words of Jesus for an answer. Allow me 
also to quote the explanatory connection: 

''And great multitudes followed him; and he healed 
them there. 

''The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, 
and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put 
away his wife for every cause ? 

"And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not 
read, that he which made them at the beginning, made 
them male and female, 

"And said. For this cause shall a man leave father 
and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they 
twain shall be one flesh? 

"Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. 
What therefore God hath joined together, let no man 
put asunder. 

' ' They say unto him, Why did Moses then command 

to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? 

[But what "fleshy mind" hath joined together, 

either on account of gold, "royal blood," position, or 

any other corruption— let God tear asunder!] 

"He saith unto them, Moses, because of the hard- 
ness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your 

wives : BUT FROM THE BEGIXXIXG IT WAS NOT SO. ' ' JcSUS 

refers back further than Abraham's time. 



26 "Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

Some of you may ask the same questions as did the 
Pharisees, "How did Jesus l^now all about these time 
before Abraham's day, when he was then not mucL 
more than thirty years old?'' Jesus answers this by 
saying, ''Before Abraham was, I am." 

Yes, Christ was in the bosom of the Father before 
the foundations of the world: and it is probably he 
who is referred to where God said, ''Let us make man 
in OUR own image, and after our likeness." 

Now, since we know what these abuses, or the trans- 
gression of this law, have brought upon the human 
family in regard to health and happiness, we will turn 
our attention to another law : the law of 

FORGIVENESS. 

You may say, ' * What has forgiveness to do with me 
in regard to my health and happiness?*' Let me tell 
you it has a great deal to do with it : far more than we 
think. In this part of the chapter, I shall only speak 
of the things it brings to us in this life in regard to 
health and happiness ; and will speak of it more fully 
later on. 

If you will not forgive your neighbor, brother or 
sister his or her trespasses, how can you reasonably 
expect them and others to forgive you your trespasses? 
"But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither 
will your Father forgive your trespasses." 

You know we are to cherish and keep some of our 
childhood graces all the days of our lives: which are 
humility and submissiveness toward- our parents or 
guardian while under their care, and to our heavenly 



The Truth Shall Make You Free:' 27 

Father when we are left to ourselves. In these graces 
are we to be children indeed ; but when it comes to the 
grace of forgiveness, wherein we should be men and 
women, we are not even children: we are little, fret- 
ting, pouting, crying, helpless, suckling babes. 

Paul says, ^*Let no corrupt communication proceed 
out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of 
edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers." 

^^And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye 
are sealed unto the day of redemption. 

''Let all bitterness,, and wrath, and anger, and 
clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with 
all malice: 

**And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, for- 
giving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath 
forgiven you. ' ' 

Oh, how much health and happiness is lost by those 
who can not forgive their neighbor for only some mere 
trifling offense, which probably those same persons are 
guilty of to others. 

''Well, how can these things affect or have anything 
to do with my health?" Know ye not that when you 
can not forgive your sister or brother, or whosoever it 
may be, your mind is occupied with thoughts of malice, 
envy, hatred, selfishness, or even at times revenge. 
These very thoughts register themselves on your body, 
causing melancholy, stupidness, sickness, sin and dis- 
ease. Let me tell you thoughts are things; yea, 
MIGHTY THINGS : SO are ALL the UNSEEN things. 

This may sound and seem strange to those who have 
never heard it before, or who have never stopped to 
think what made them so. 



28 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

Now, on the other hand, let this same one reconcile 
himself to his ^'brother" casting out and putting away 
from his mind all these evil thoughts which he had 
held towards his brother, and think of thoughts of 
love, kindness, oldtime friendship, etc. And let it also 
happen that while this brother is thinking these 
thoughts of love for the reconciled one, the reclaimed 
brother happens to step in and greets him kindly be- 
cause he is of a forgiving spirit; and they strike up 
an agreeable conversation during his short call. Let 
me tell you that a mighty change has taken place in 
these two souls and bodies. Oh, could we but know 
and realize the depth and power of the law of true for- 
giveness with love! 

Now listen and notice how beautifully Jesus has 
condensed all that I have said about ''forgiveness," 
and a great deal more, in these few words: 

'* Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and 
there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against 
thee, 

** Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy 
way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come 
and offer thy gift. ' ' 

Is it any wonder that the question was asked, ^^Who 
by searching can find out God?" We are lO search, 
but not with that aim. 

^'Therefore be not deceived; God is not mocked; fop 
whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." 

If you sow thoughts of malice, envy, hatred, jeal- 
ousy, etc., you can not expect to reap from such sow- 
ing, thoughts of love, kindness, peace, contentment, 
etc., from others in return or exchange. Christ has 



The Truth Shall Make You Free." 29 

plainly answered this Avhen he said, ''Do men gather 
grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?^' Therefore, if 
you open that door of your heart and mind to let your 
lion out, remember that same door will let other lions 
in. Henceforth open that door which lets out your pet 
lamb, and pet lambs will likewise in return come in. 

Understand that your lot wholly depends upon the 
kind of seed you sow. And know ye not that the great- 
est blessing that can befall you, comes by the good you 
do to your fellow-being? Do not misunderstand me 
and think that you must empty the contents of your 
purse into your neighbor's pocket; or that you shall 
leave your own work or business and dig and scratch 
for him. No, but rather let it be : 

"Little deeds of kindness, " 
Little words of love, 
Make our earth an Eden, 
Like the heaven above.*' 

These words may also be advice— reprove, rebuke, 
or anything that can be done to show them the right 
way which will lead to future happiness. 

Another law which knows no variableness nor 
shadow of turning in this life is that of 

RELAXATION. 

This law of nature (God) has been complied with 
unconsciously by every living creature from the day 
they and we drew our first breath. 

This natural law of relaxation comes unconsciously 
into play and does its work in this way : While we go 
about our daily toil and cares, we are using up our 



30 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

supply of strength and force faster than our system 
can produce this power, or, in other words, the tearing 
down is greater than the building up. It is on this ac- 
count that we gladly place ourselves in bed every 
night and enjoy that refreshing sleep until morning. 
You may say, ''It is the sleep that builds me up/' Yes, 
and we have brought this case to the point where I 
want it. Hold fast to this truth and do not get it 
twisted : 

There is No Natural Sleep without Complete 
Relaxation: but There can be Relaxation without 
Sleep. 

It is on account of the need of this perfect relaxation 
that we are put to sleep; and the subjective part of 
our mind is put into complete abeyance or a blank for 
the time being. It is nows while we are in this con- 
dition, that the same power which created you and 
me— which also sustains and keeps us— has free access 
to come and go where it listeth and do her perfect 
work. 

Let me illustrate, that all may clearly understand 
what is meant by relaxation. No doubt all of you have 
seen or taken up little children in your arms from a 
couch, cradle or bed while they were fast asleep. Did 
you notice while you, or some one else, was taking 
them up, how limber they were ? How the head would 
fall backward, the arms would roll over the body? Or, 
to use this expression, the muscles were so limber or 
relaxed, that the different parts of the body *'fell all 
over themselves"? 

Allow me to refer you to a place where you can not 
help but see this law operating on full-grown people. 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 31 

I am very sorry— not for the perfect ease and relaxa- 
tion of these adults, but as to the place where it fre- 
quently occurs. Here in front of you sits one quite 
comfortably: yes, he has allowed his muscles to relax 
too much for the occasion. The muscles of the neck 
have become at this time so completely relaxed that 
they refuse to support the head any longer. And on 
account of the lean being high enough only for to 
support the back, the head is left helpless and begins 
to wabble to one side, then to the other. And if his 
body is leaning in the same direction in which his 
head falls, he is liable to go over. But about the time, 
or before this happens, there may come from the pul- 
pit, with much emphasis, words like these : * ' Awake ! 
Awake, thou that sleepest, and Christ shall give thee 
light!!" 

Do not misunderstand me, for I wish to be reason- 
able with all. I know there may come a time to all of 
us when we have hard work to keep awake. For in- 
stance, if you have lost much sleep by staying up with 
the sick for many nights, or for any other unavoidable 
cause, such cases I shall gladly overlook; but when it 
becomes a weekly habit, and no sleep lost, to such it 
certainly is a shame! 

While speaking of this, I am not ashamed to say, 
I remember, once in my life, I could hardly stay awake. 
And if the following explanation will not excuse me, 
we shall let it go unpardoned. 

In the month of July, 1900, while going from Pitts- 
burg, Pa., to Denver, Col., a distance of about seven- 
teen hundred miles, more or less, I was two days and 
two nights on the train. And to a person who is not 



32 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

used to sleeping on a berth, and thrown from one side 
to the other, and the voice of the whistle and wheels— 
I tell you there is not much chance for perfect relaxa- 
tion. 

Having not been in bed since Sabbath night, and on 
account of the coolness of the atmosphere there, I as- 
sure you it was an easy matter to go to sleep on Wed- 
nesday night. But the time to sleep had not yet come ; 
there was a conventional meeting of the Y. P. C. U., 
held at the Third Presbyterian Church of Denver, 
which I wished to attend. 

The meeting was very interesting and so was sleep at 
the same time. I held out well until about the last 
fifteen minutes before adjournment, when I began to 
dose ; but, with renewed effort and struggle, I kept my- 
self from becoming a blank. 

Coming back to the subject of relaxation: I believe 
my relaxation was so complete, and my sleep so deep 
that night, that I could have been picked up like a 
little child and taken from one bed to another without 
awakening from that deep sleep. 

All I have said thus far on this subject of relaxing 
would not be of great benefit to you without the follow- 
ing. You remember I said, there is no natural sleep 
without complete relaxation; but there can be relaxa- 
tion without sleep. It is this relaxation without sleep 
that I wish you to notice. 

Now, if it is necessary for us who are in perfect 
health to return to our place of rest every night, or, 
as the great poet described it, ' ' to^kmtjij)Jhe^rayele^ 
sleev e of care," how much more necessary it is that 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 33 

those who are weak or ill should partake frequently of 
this refreshening, relaxing rest. 

Therefore, let those of you who feel weak or ill, 
retire to a room or place where you are not liable to 
be disturbed, and lie on the broad of your back on a 
couch or bed. Let your arms lie by your sides, or in 
any comfortable position you wish. Allow your mind 
to center itself on sleep or become a blank. Relax 
every muscle, and allow yourself to become so limber 
that you may have the feeling as if 'you are sinking 
well down into the bed-clothes or feathers. Allow 
your breathing to become full and free. Be perfectly 
quiet, and if you have allowed yourself to become 
relaxed fairly well, you will either fall asleep, or feel 
this sweeping, soothing influence coming over you 
which is ^^ knitting up the raveled sleeve of care." 

After resting in this position ten or fifteen minutes, ' 
and if you do not fall asleep, or after you awake, get 
up and go to the extreme opposite— go stiffen and 
stretch yourself for all there is in you, and you cer- 
tainly will be strengthened by it. Try this method 
whenever you have need of doing so. 

If we could comply with this law in our waking 
state as easily, naturally and unconsciously as the 
beasts of the field and the cats of the house do, we 
would be as free from sickness as they are, providing 
we did not transgress other laws. Did you ever notice, 
when a dog or cat lies down, how thoroughly they 
relax? Watch your dog and cat when they are not 
aware of you seeing or taking particular notice of 
them when they go to lie down, The last part that 



34 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

seems to relax, or that part which is plainly noticeable, 
is the tail. 

You may say, *' Yes, but the cow, the horse, the dog, 
the sheep, the swine, etc.^ get sick once in awhile." 
Yes, because they are dependent creatures and have 
not their liberty. They must take their food whenever 
they get it; they also must take their abuses when- 
ever they are handed them. If they had the liberty 
and independence, without the abuses, like that of the 
birds of the air and the beasts of the forests, they 
would not be sick ; because our heavenly Father f eed- 
eth and careth for them himself. Referring to Paul 
again, ^'Doth not nature teach us so?'' What is na- 
ture? Is it not a manifestation of God in it, through 
it, and behind it? 

Now, there may be some of you who will try this 
method of relaxing and get no benefit from it; not 
because the law will not operate, neither because you 
know not how to comply with it; but because your 
body is d^dng and weakening and wasting away for 
the want of exercise and work. Let such a one get at' 
and do something! Move about those lazy bones and 
labor for yourself and others ! Oh, work ! work ! 
*^Why stand ye here all the day idle?" Oh, work, 
work, that the blood may once more have a chance to 
circulate freely in its course ! Work, that your bread 
may be sweet to your taste ! Work, that your mind 
may be occupied on anything else but sickness, dis- 
ease and sin ! Work, work, and your bed will appear 
softer to you than ever before ! Work ! oh, work ! 
for an idle person is the devirs workshop ! ! 



The Truth Shall Mahe You Free/' 35 

Now for those who truly suffer from sickness of any- 
kind, what shall we say to them? What shall we do 
for them? What kind of medicine is always safe to 
give to them? 

In the following conversation, I wish to say that 
''Dick'' and ''Joe" will do the most of it. "Dick" 
is the sinful, worldly man, and "Joe" is the church- 
man. 

Joe— "If he were a sinner with a sick and sinful soul, 
I would know at once how to bring about a cure." 

Dick— "Well, Joe, I feel and know that I am just 
such a man, and how would you bring about a cure 
for me?" 

Joe— "According to our church doctrines of this day 
and generation, I will show you the plan of salvation 
and the way to Christ, who is able to save, and who 
came to save all sinful men that put their trust in him, 
and love him. Now, Dick, do you believe that Jesus 
loves you and is able to save you, if you believe on 
him?" 

Dick-" I do." 

Joe— "Very well, Dick; believe on the Lord Jesus 
Christ and thou shalt be saved. For Jesus is a friend 
in need and a friend indeed in time of trouble." 

Well, this "sinful" brother has accepted as much 
of this gracious invitation as was given and showed 
to him, and is now living a reformed moral life and 
is doing well ; but the other day he was laid upon his 
bed of sickness and asked Joe this question : 

Dick— "Joe, can not this same Jesus, who gave you 
words of love which have brought some health to my 



36 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

soul, also give you words of love or something to heal 
my diseased body?'' 

Joe— **No, no, there was a time, long ago, when 
Jesus spake the word and whosoever he touched was 
healed of their diseases; and all his first followers 
spoke the word and applied their hands,, and as many 
as believed were healed; but this is not the style now." 

Dick—- ^^Well, then, a sick man in body is a thou- 
sand times worse off torday than a man with a sinful 
soul, according to your doctrine ? ' ' 

Joe— *' Yes, I must honestly admit that this is so; 
but we must abide and live strictly according to our 
church doctrines of this day and generation. And if 
any of us followers would attempt to do anything in 
the way that Christ's early disciples did, we would 
be ridiculed, mocked, mud-balled, and all manner of 
evil spoken against us falsely." 

Dick— *^ Well, to whom do you people go when you 
are sick? Pray tell me, for I wish to get well again." 

Joe— '^ Well, we call upon a physician, who gives us 
medicine which is made from all manner of herbs and 
minerals." 

Dick— ''I thought the God whom you serve is a 
friend in need, and a very present help in time of trou- 
ble ? I am in trouble now ! and where is my aid ? ' ' 

Joe— ''Well, that has always been a mystery to me, 
and I never had the heart to say anything, or ask 
anything, further about it." 

Dick— ''Then, you have two gods: a supposed God 
on high for the soul, and a god of the earth for 
the body?" 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 37 

Joe— ''Well, that is the way I have been taught from 
my youth up, and can not see how I serve two gods. ' ' 

Dick — ^^I read in the good Book the other day where 
it said, 'He that believeth on me, the works that I do, 
he shall do also ; and greater works than these shall ye 
do ; because I go unto my Father. ' Therefore, do you 
really believe on the Lord Jesus Christ?'* 

Joe— "I can not say now that I do ; I thought I did; 
but I doubt my own words at this time." 

Dick— "I also read in a place where it said, 'Except 
a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he can not 
enter into the kingdom of God.' Therefore I ask, are 
you born of water and of the Spirit^ or only born of 
water?" 

Joe— "Oh! oh! Say no more or I will faint! They 
say I am as good as the rest of them that go to church ; 
and if they are born of water and of the Spirit, so am 
I. I know for sure that I am baptized with water, for 
my mother told me so ! " 

Dick— "Oh, Joe! A w^onderful feeling has come 
upon me ! I see and I hear as never before ! Behold, 
everything has become changed! I feel free as a 
lark, and my disease is about gone ! Why lie I here 
any longer?" 

And "Dick" sprang up in the presence of his blind 
brother Joe, and danced for joy before the Lord, as 
did King David. 

This new tongue and this strange performance of 
Dick's was too much for poor Joe. It was some more 
of what Joe called mystery; and is now in a state of 
bewilderment, and becomes quite pale. 

Joe— "I feel sick, and must go to bed!" 



38 ''Ye Sliall Know the Truth, and 

Dick— *^ How beautiful are the words of Jesus to me 
now ! How easily they do come to me without beck or 
call ! How much easier are they now for me to under- 
stand them ! I know now what Jesus meant when he 
said, 'What I tell you in the darkness, that speak ye in 
the light.' Joe, it means this: All that ever you told 
me of Jesus which you and I did not understand at the 
time ourselves, that shall we speak with the true mean- 
ing, whenever we are born of the Spirit. You know, 
to be born of water and to live a moral life, can be 
brought about by man ; but to be born of the Spirit, is 
something that the world can not give : it is only given 
to those who truly seek the Lord, and are willing to 
become meek and lowly in heart. 

^'Joe, it is a pleasure for me to speak the sayings 
of Jesus, because God has engraven them on the fleshy 
tables of my heart. I understand now what these 
words mean, *When the Spirit of truth hath made thee 
free, ye shall be free indeed.' Also, 'When the Spirit, 
the Comforter, has come, he shall guide you into all 
truth.' As to the way this new birth cometh, it is 
described in these words, 'The wind bloweth where it 
listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst 
not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is 
every one that is born of the Spirit.' Joe, the Spirit 
tells me there is something wrong with your faith, and 
the teachings you have had from your youth up." 

Joe— ''Yes, I am beginning to feel that way myself, 
and that is why I am heartsick ! ' ' 

Dick— "Then, you have eyes which see not, and ears 
which hear not; and these things which you call mys- 
tery, have become a stumbling-stone to you." 



The Truth Shall MaJce You Free/' 39 

Joe took things good-naturedly, for lie felt there was 
something ^^Tong, but did not know Avhere the trouble 
lay. Furthermore, his heart was faint and did not 
understand what Spirit, truth or love meant. He did 
not have, neither did he knoAv, that ^'perfect love cast- 
eth out all fear.'' 

Dick — ^' Joe, this conversation which I have had with 
3^ou^ throws a poor reflection on your church doctrines. 
Remember, the Holy Spirit is very quick to perceive 
and search out all truth and falsehood. Therefore, Joe, 
be not surprised if the same finger which placed the 
handwriting on Belshazzar's wall, long ago, should also 
write the following lines on the supposed doors of your 
church doctrines of men : 

" 'Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and rock 
of offense : and whosoever believeth on him shall not 
be ashamed.' 

*^ 'There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but 
the end thereof is death.' 

'' 'This people draweth nigh unto me with their 
mouth, and honoreth me Vv^ith their lips : but their heart 
is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teach- 
ing for doctrines the commandments of men.' 

" 'Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and 
ear, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers 
did, so do ye.' " 

Joe— "Oh, stop, Dick! Stopn and say no more! I'm 
lost! I'm lost! lost!" 

Dick— "No, no, you are not lost! You have just 
come to a time where you fuUy realize the need of a 
Saviour I You have just come to a place where Jesus 
will take you up in his arms and bless you, and write 



40 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

your name in the Lamb 's book of life ! You have only- 
come to the time where we read, 'With much trial and 
tribulation shall ye enter into the kingdom. ' 

''You have only come to the experience of which 
Peter wrote, 'Beloved, think it not strange concerning 
the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some 
strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inas- 
much as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, 
when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also 
with exceeding joy.' 

"Joe, it is only when we confess our sinfulness, our 
helplessness, and repent and become humble as little 
children, that the Lord will listen to our cries. Remem- 
ber, Joe, this is a matter which lies between you and 
your Redeemer ; and every one must work out his own 
salvation with fear and trembling, until the joy, peace 
and love are revealed. Joe, I can nO' mor^ save your 
soul than your body from starvation by eating your 
food for you: all I can do is to bring this bread and 
water of Life within reach ; and if you help not your- 
self, death is the result. Therefore, Joe, whenever you 
feel you are ready to give your heart to the Lord, you 
can offer the little prayer which brought rest to the 
soul of that poor publican, when he said, '0 God, be 
merciful to me a sinner!' 

"Joe, you know it was you who first told me of the 
plan of salvation, and it is now a pleasure for me to 
show you the way unto everlasting life. You know 
there are so many that would rather pray the long 
prayer of the Pharisee, thanking God that they are not 
like other men ; forgetting that God is no respecter of 
persons; also, forgetting that the Fathei knoweth 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 41 

what we have need of before we ask him. This is 
why Jesus said, ^Because strait is the gate, and narrow 
is the way which leadeth unto life ; and few there be 
that find it' " 

Joe— ''I feel, I want to pray!" 

Dick— '^ You say you are ready now, Joe? All 
right! I will kneel down by the bed, and you can lie 
on your folded hands to your breast, if you wish." 

Joe prayed as he was directed, with a sincere desire 
and expression that even surprised Dick ; and then he 
asked Dick to pray, which was done cheerfully with 
these words : 

"0 gracious Spirit, love divine, 
Light up this soul as thou hast mine." 

' Joe began to see and realize that he was only living 
a moral life, and water-born; and that a spiritual life 
meant a great deal more. 

Joe is not growing as fast in grace as Dick is; be- 
cause he has so many old, former beliefs to contend 
•with, which prove to be false. Dick, before this time, 
had no former beliefs at all ; and had nothing to hinder 
him when the light, the truth and the life was revealed 
unto him. 

It was on this account that Jesus chose poor, igno- 
rant fishermen for his first disciples, like Dick; who 
were not filled with blind beliefs, as the scribes and 
Pharisees. 

To whom would and does the Lord go to-day in 
order to find faith on earth and have perfect praise? 
Were not many of those, who entered in at the door of 
the sheepfold, at one time in life poor, little, ragged. 



42 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

ignorant boys and girls? Of course, some— a few of 
all kinds— climbed up over and got in some other way; 
but such are only thieves and robbers, and will be 
brought out low, until they learn to see the true and 
real entrance. 

I gave this foregoing necessary conversation as a 
preparatory explanation for the great cardinal doc- 
trine of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is the doctrine 
or law of 

AGREEMENT. 

And on this law hang all the sayings of Jesus, in 
regard to every good work. This law, which Jesus 
uttered and demonstrated to the world almost nineteen 
centuries ago, can be demonstrated to-day as well as 
then, if we only fully knew how to go about it. 

Here is the law he uttered. Read it ! Understand it ! 
Apply it! '*If two of you shall agree upon earth as 
touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done 
for them of my Father which is in heaven." 

Allow me to say the same thing in an explanatory 
way: ^*If two of you [two dozen, two hundred, two 
thousand, or as many as there may be; but the more 
in number, the more difficult it is to secure this agree- 
ment; but there must be at least two, if the benefit of 
the agreement is for the other and not you] shall agree 
upon earth as touching anything that they shall ask 
[the agreement must be a complete harmony of the 
heart and soul; and the asking shall be of anything 
that comes under the head of love or good ; for God is 
love. These are the things that shall be done for 



The Truth Shall Make You Free!' 43 

them], it shall be done for them of my Father which 
is in heaven/' 

Before I make the following statements of truth as 
it has been revealed to me, it will not surprise me to 
hear the same judgment passed upon it, as it was on 
the truth and facts which Columbus presented to the 
court of Spain; and of Fulton, and ''Fulton's folly," 
the steamboat; and of James Watt, and his ''tea- 
kettle/' or steam-engine; and of Morse, and his tele- 
graph; and of Field, and his Atlantic cable; and of 
John the Baptist, and his supposed possession of a 
devil; and of Jesus Christ, who was made out as a 
winebibber and a servant of Beelzebub, the prince of 
the devils; and of the apostle Paul, accused of being 
drunk with wine, and "too much learning maketh 
thee mad/' And the Lord God only know^s what else, 
and who else ! ! 

But here is the secret of the whole matter: **And 
this is the condemnation, that light is come into the 
world, and men loved darkness rather than light, be- 
cause their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth 
evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest 
his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth 
cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made mani- 
fest, that they are wrought in God.'' 

Yes, our God of truth and love is marching on; no 
matter what may have been the opinion of the existent 
authorities of the different centuries, our God still 
marches on. "God's will, not ours, be done.'* 

Now I am ready to present my statements : be it to 
a kind and attentive ear, like that of Queen Isabella; 



44 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

or be it to a deaf ear, like that of the blind, hard- 
hearted Pharisee. 

^'Corne, let us reason together, saith the Lord." 
Why are we to use our reasoning powers? Because it 
is not a bodily function like the five senses, but is a 
faculty of the mind or soul. Therefore let us reason 
together. 

Remember, I told you before that God is love. Yes, 
God is a God of love, and not a supposed tyrant, as 
many believe, of whom we should fear and be afraid. 
God is our heavenly Father, whom we shall love with 
all our mind, soul and heart. Now, how can you or I 
love any one of whom w^e are deathly afraid? What 
happiness, what pleasure and what contentment would 
there be for you and me to come and worship, or dwell 
with, a fierce lion? 

The Lord God only wants us to obey his command- 
ments because we love him, and not because we are 
deathly afraid of him. For instance, take this passage, 
*^The fear of God is the beginning of all wisdom." 
The same or true meaning in other words, The love 
for God is the beginning of all wisdom. '^Perfect love 
easteth out all fear," in every direction you wish to 
view it. 

Neither is this God of love and truth a sender of 
all manner of sickness and diseases to his people, like 
most of them believe he is. Let me tell you who this 
tyrant is. It is WE, ourselves. Or, in plainer words, 
we serve too much the Pharisee's father, and also try 
to serve Christ's Father. It is on account of our 
straying or going away from the law, or the trans- 
gression of one or two^ or all, of the foregoing laws 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 45 

which I have already referred to, that brings about this 
sin and disease. This is our due reward; and just 
what is coming to us and what we deserve! 

The prodigal son reaped bitterly, exactly what he 
had soAvn: and remembering his way back to his 
father's house, he returned and forsook his transgress- 
ing way with loathing. 

Those who suppose that God sends us all manner of 
sickness and disease, and then sends his only begot- 
ten Son to go about and heal all manner of diseases, 
merely for the pleasure of seeing his Son work, and a 
manifestation of his glory, have a wrong conception of 
God. To such I say, you know not the Father, neither 
the Son, but are yet in your sins ; or know not in the 
fullness of a measure that you ought to know! 

Such still live in consciousness, realizing their sep- 
arateness from Him. Learn the strait and narrow 
way— to live in conscience, which means realizing our 
ONENESS with Him. 

Jesus came not because God is a sender of diseases; 
but he came to show all people the way back to the 
Father 's house, from which all have strayed. 

The people had strayed so far, and had such a wrong 
conception of God, that they worshiped, as Jesus called 
it, *^ye know not what;" and in another place. He even 
as much as said, ^'Ye worship your father, the devil." 

These people worshiped the devil, under or in the 
name of God the Father ; and did not know it ! Is not 
the devil worshiped much to-day in the same way, 
under or in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ? ? 

No wonder Jesus said: ^*But now ye seek to kill 



46 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

me, a man that hath fold you the truth, which I have 
heard of God : this did not Abraham. 

^'Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to 
him. We be not born of fornication; we have one 
Father, even God. 

''Jesus said unto them. If God were your Father, ye 
would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from 
God : neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 

*'Why do ye not understand my speech? even be- 
cause ye cannot hear my word. 

''Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of 
your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the 
beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is 
no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh 
of his own : for he is a liar, and the father of it. 

''And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 
Which of you convinceth me of sin ? And if I say the 
truth, why do ye not believe me? 

"He that is of God heareth God's words: ye there- 
fore hear them not, because ye are not of God." 

These statements of the truth, all through this book, 
may stare you in the face ; but that is the express pur- 
pose for which they are put here ; for they stared me 
in the face not much more than a year ago. I, like a 
great many more, had, and have, the same reason to 
ask the same question which Pilate asked Jesus, 
"What is truth?" 

Do you suppose Jesus could apply the law of agree- 
ment, on such an occasion, and do many mighty works? 
No, they would not believe him, therefore could not 
agree with him; and on such occasions we read: "And 



The Truth Shall MaU You Freer 47 

he did not many mighty works there, on account of 
their unbelief." 

There is only one thing that Jesus very severely 
criticises and condemns in us, and that is this: his con-i 
demnation of our unbelief in the truth, or our belief 
and love in lies. 

Should the subject of healing seem strange and out 
of place in this day and generation? No, not if we 
have read and understand the New Testament. No, 
not if we have allowed ourselves to take the humble 
position of the poor publican, or the Ethiopian eunuch, 
while reading it. No, not if we opened our hearts and 
received the words of love and life gladly, that we may 
understand the undercurrent meaning. For we read 
as to how the Spirit is divided among all of God's 
peculiar people : j 

^^For to one is given, by the Spirit, the word of wis- 
dom; to another the word of knowledge, by the same/ 
Spirit; 

''To another faith, by the same Spirit; to another the/ 
gifts of healing, by the same Spirit." 

There are other places that make mention of the 
same subject, which will be referred to later on. Tak- 
ing up another important subject, which will be dis- 
cussed in the next chapter, is prayer. 



48 ''Ye Shall Kfioiv tlie Truth, and 

CHAPTER II. 

PRAYER. 

What is prayer? Is prayer ever answered? Who 
prays? How shall we pray? For what shall we 
pray? How are prayers answered? These are mo- 
mentous questions, and should inyite our strictest 
attention. 

On this subject, like on all others, I shall favor 
neither creed nor sect nor sex; but will uphold the 
truth in all matters with the honest conviction of 
my heart. 

I know of no better or more beautiful words that 
express my sentiments as to what prayer is, than 
those which are given by Montgomery in the follow- 
ing lines : 

"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, 

Uttered or unexpressed 
The motion of a hidden fire 
That trembles in the breast. 

"Prayer is the burden of a sigh, 
The falling of a tear; 
The upward glancing of an eye 
When none but God is near. 

"Prayer is the simplest form of speech 

That infant lips can try; 
Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach 
The majesty on high." 

To make it more complete, will add: 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 49 

Prayer is the simplest act or deed 

That love's motive can bestow; 
A cup of water in time of need, 

Is the best of seed to sow. 

I have briefly stated what prayer is, and will answer, 
with more convenience, the remaining questions col- 
lectively. 

Let me tell you that all prayers are always answered, 
but probably and generally not in the way we expect 
them to be answered. 

There is also such a thing as a supposed prayer, 
wherein there is no essence of a prayer at all; such 
utterances are no more a prayer than the sounds of a 
drum, both being produced on account of their great 
emptiness. The words coming forth from such formal 
performances rise no higher from the lips than smoke 
from a chimney before a rain. 

There is such a thing as thinking you are praying, 
when you are not. There is such a thing as praying 
for we know not what. There is such a thing as 
offering up vain repetitions, as the heathen do. 

What class of people were referred to, when spoken 
of as ^^ heathen'' in the foregoing and following state- 
ments? *^Why do the heathen rage, and the people 
imagine vain things?" Please read the Acts of the 
Apostles, and you will know. 

All those that truly pray, have complied with the 
word or law, either wholly or in part, by which all 
prayers are answered. The more we realize and know 
what it means to be ^^meek and lowly in heart," the 
fuller will be the answer or blessing'. 



50 ''Ye Shall Knoiv the Truth, and 

The prayer of the poor publican, and the vain repeti- 
tion of the proud, blind Pharisee which is spoken of in 
Matthew, should be both a guide and a warning for us. 

Therefore, all those who pray, are meek and lowly 
in heart; differing in degrees, such as some one hun- 
dred, some sixty, some thirty, and— ? 

Probably it is well to give an explanation as to what 
is meant by being ^^meek and lowly in heart.'' For 
if there is only one who should read this book, and 
does not understand what is meant by these words, I 
shall feel well repaid for having done so. 

Dear reader, in the words which I shall quote, is 
the vital part and secret of the whole Christian life, for 
time and eternity. Now listen to the sublimest words, 
that fell from the purest lips, that were ever uttered : 

*^Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy 
laden, and I will give you rest. 

^^Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me ; for I am 
meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto 
your souls. 

''For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." 

''Come unto me, [who?] all ye that labor and are 
heavy laden, [no need or call for the lazy-bones] and 
I will give you rest. [He does not mean to give us a 
comfortable sitting down in a cosey chair all our life, 
neither a feathery bed to lie on always : but he is going 
to give you his secret or recipe how you may be able to 
obtain this peace and contentment, or this rest. And 
whosoever will, may receive this gold of heaven. Here 
is the recipe of this glorious life:] 

"Take my yoke upon you. and learn of me: [what is 
this yoke? It is not the yoke of Egyptian bondage, 



The Truth Shall Make You Free." 51 

or a yoke to keep us in bondage or in the field— like 
that which is hung upon the necks of horses and cattle 
at times, to keep them from jumping the fence— which 
so many people believe it to be. Hereafter, please look 
upon this yoke, secret or recipe in this way : 

It is a burden-bearing yoke : a yoke that takes away 
or prevents hundreds of different things that would 
cause friction of the heart and soul. It is an unseen 
yoke or armor, put on for the same purpose which the 
oxen and horses wear, to pull the heavy loads with 
ease. This yoke for us is not an outward hanging on, 
or a smearing on of the '^outside of the cup and the 
platter,'' made with all manner of costly fleecy garbs; 
but this yoke is an inward bridling of the heart. 

Now notice how and whereunto your heart will be 
led with this new bridle:] for I am meek and lowly 
[the extreme opposite of proud and high] in heart: 
and ye shall find rest unto your souls. [Yes, a crust 
of bread, with contentment and love, will be your 
choice, rather than great riches and plenty, mixed with 
all kinds of corruption and strife.] For my yoke [my 
way of doing things] is easy, and my burden is [thei 
law of love makes all things] light.'' 

Therefore, let such as pray, mean every word they 
say: asking only for the things they have need of, 
here and hereafter ; asking not for a thousand and one 
difl:erent things, which, if their prayers were answered, 
they would not know how to use: asking only 
for themselves, what they will freely ask for the mean- 
est person on earth; asking only for that which their 
faith, hope and love allows them to believe that they 
will receive; asking only, realizing that the Father 



52 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

knoweth what we have need of before we ask him ; ask- 
ing only, not my will, but as thou wilt; asking only, 
to allow the answer to come in God's own good time 
and way; asking, then go labor and meet the Father 
half way. God helps those who help themselves. If 
a thing is not worth going after, it is not worth hav- 
ing. 

Now, as to how we shall pray, let me say, if it is 
an audible prayer for the edifying of others, make 
it not too long; rather let it be brief, concise, to the 
point, and not in an unknown tongue. To pray in 
an unknown tongue for others, is very poor food for 
their souls: it is like filling their belly with husks, 
leaving them in a worse condition than they were in 
before. 

Paul speaks very plainly of this when he said, *^Tet 
in the church I had rather speak five words with my 
understanding, that by my voice I might teach others 
also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." 

If it be a silent prayer, or when you are alone, pray 
in whatever tongue you wish and as long as you like. 
Think not only to pray when you have, or are about 
to put, on your best ^^ Sunday clothes," and that to 
do you the whole week : such is only Pharisaism. 

Let your every action, every breath, and all the 
days of your life, be one long prayer. This is what 
Paul meant when he said, **Pray without ceasing." 

Probably it will be well to cite a few thoughts in 
regard to the posture we take during prayer in the 
churches. Let us not allow ourselves to follow after 
the commandments and doctrines of men: but, ''pre- 
pare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight" 



The Truth Shall Make You Free:' 53 

for the second appearing or coming. For he says, 
'* Behold, I come quickly/' Quickly, in the sight of 
the Lord, is revealed in these words, ^*But, beloved, 
be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with 
the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years 
as one day.'' 

You may ask, ''Why, then, did Jesus say, 'Lo, I am 
with you alway, even unto the end of the world'?" 

Yes, Christ is with us always : he is here ' ' yesterday, 
to-day and to-morrow/' but, here only in the third 
person of the Trinity, which is the Comforter or Spirit. 
If this were not true, how and where would you place 
these words : 

^'Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into 
heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from 
you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye 
have seen him go into heaven. 

**For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven 
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and 
with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall 
rise first." 

According to the Lord's measuring of time, it has 
not been quite two days since he has ascended into 
heaven ; and why should we wonder at his word when 
he said, *' Behold, I come quickly"? 

Do not misunderstand me and think that I mean to 
say that the Lord is coming to-morrow in our measur- 
ing of time. No, but he may come this evening of 
the second day; because the second day (or two thou- 
sand years) has not yet passed, since he ascended into 
heaven. 



54 ''Ye Shall Knoiv the Truth, and 

This is one thing that Jesus, while on earth, openly 
admitted— that even he did not know when this time 
shall be, saying, '*But of that day and hour knoweth 
no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father 
only." 

It may be in the evening of the second day, or in 
the third ; but w^hat of it ? This is not for us to know. 
A thousand times rather make it your business to 
know whether your name is or will be written in the 
Lamb's book of life! 

Now, what attitude or posture shall we take while 
praying? Some congregations stand while praying; 
some sit and stand; and some kneel, sit and stand. 

I shall quote what is found in the Gospels of the 
four Evangelists, and let you make your own decision. 

The first worshiping of the holy child Jesus that 
we have any record of, was done by the three wise 
men of the East, '^And when they were come into the 
house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, 
and fell down and worshiped him." 

Here is what is prophesied of Jesus (Old Testa- 
ment—He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his 
voice to be heard in the streets). 

Here is Christ's warning for us: ''And when thou 
prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for 
they love to pray standing in the synagogue, and in 
the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of 
men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 

*'But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, 
[enter into the true spirit of mind and heart, thy first 
closet; and thy other closet may be the bedroom, the 
coal-house, the cellar, the roots of a tree in the forest. 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 55 

under the starry canopy on the dewy grass, or where- 
soever it may be] and when thou hast shut thy door, 
[when thou hast shut the door of thy heart towards 
all evil and worldly things, for the time being at least] 
pray to thy Father which is in secret ; and thy Father, 
which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." 

Here is the fulfillment of the warning ('^Then said 
one unto him. Lord, are there few that be saved? And 
he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait 
gate : for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, 
and shall not be able. When once the master of the 
house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye 
begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, 
saying. Lord, Lord, open unto us ; and he shall answer 
and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are. Then 
shall ye begin to say, "We have eaten and drunk in thy 
presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he 
shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; 
depart from me^ all ye workers of iniquity.") : 

*^And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have 
aught against any; that your Father also which is in 
heaven may forgive you your trespasses. 

^^But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father 
which is in heaven forgive your trespasses." 

*^And he [Jesus] was withdrawn from them about 
a stone Vcast, and kneeled down, and prayed." 

In no place is it recorded, that I am aware of, that 
Jesus would have us take the sitting posture while 
praying. Since posture of prayer is nothing compared 
with the spirit of prayer, but, as we are to use one 
or the other, why not use the ones intended or men- 
tioned? This is only a laziness that has crept into 



56 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

the churches. The sitting posture may be all right 
for women having small children, or for aged persons; 
but for all others I will say, stand up for Jesus, or, 
rather, bow thy knees. For Jesus has not spoken a 
word against the kneeling posture ; but he has spoken a 
word against the standing posture. 

*'For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every 
knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess 
to God.'' (Using the temporal meaning here.) 

Since this is the command, why not learn to bend 
our stiff personages in time; and ever keep before our 
minds that meekness and lowliness of heart? 

If our raiment is of such a fine texture that it pre- 
vents us from kneeling, for fear of the dust and the 
pressing it out of shape, I say, put off that cloak of 
sin which doth so easily beset us, and come clothed 
in something more common— that which becometh 
all godliness. Learn and remember that life does not 
consist in the abundance of things we have to eat and 
to drink and to wear. 

Oh, need I to wonder at the words when Jesus said, 
''For after all these things do the Gentiles seek''? 

To the Methodists and Roman Catholics, and to all 
denominations that meekly bend their knees, at least 
once during their church services, to them in this one 
thing I say, Hold fast to thy posture, for it is built 
upon a rock ! ! 

(''What! you being baptized a Lutheran, and 
reared a United Presbyterian! how dare you show 
favor to these denominations!!!) I have told you 
already, and you did not hear, why will you hear it 
again? I will tell it once more for all; and those that 



The Truth Shall Make You Free." 57 

have ears to hear, let them hear and understand; I 
neither show nor lend favor to any denomination ; but 
I do show and lend favor to truth, and wheresoever 
truth is made manifest. 

Before closing this chapter, I will give you a prayer 
that never grows old to me, but always appears new. 
It is not the Lord's Prayer; but it is a prayer from 
the Lord, for us. This is my favorite morning prayer : 

"Our Father which art in heaven, 
Hallowed be thy name. 
Thy kingdom come. 

Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. 
Give us this day our daily bread: 

And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. 
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: 
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, 
forever. 
Amen." 



58 ''Ye Shall Know tie Truth, and 

CHAPTER HI. 

CENTERING OUR AFFECTIONS. 

There is an inborn gift in the breast of every hu- 
nian being that ever was, is and will be born into this 
world. It is the gift to love. Some of you may doubt 
this statement ; but if you will notice how the subject 
of this chapter reads, you will see it in another light. 

Remember, we are all born with the gift to love, and 
we are bound to love or center our affections some- 
where and on something. It may be on self, or on 
animals, or money, or clothing, or eatables, or drinks, 
or property, or friends, or God. 

The centering of these affections has three distinct 
tendencies or directions; which are the inward, the 
outward and the upward tendencies. 

The smallest person on earth is found where the in- 
ward centering has taken place: where the affections 
are so compact in self that the center and circumfer- 
ence are almost the same. Such persons waste many 
years of their lives in foolishness and blindness, and 
wondering why they are not loved by others, forget- 
ting, or not knowing, that a selfish spirit repels others, 
instead of attracting or drawing. This is a mystery to 
them. They may be more handsome, and, with all 
their finery, they can not see how these persons, poorly 
clad in comparison, can yield such a powerful loving 
influence; and they can do nothing but merely look 
on. I am not referring to the kind that play the 
** monkey" for the crowd or the whole house; but 



The Truth Shall Mahe You Free/' 59 

those who have that ^* something'' about them which 
all sensible persons admire,, and which causes them to 
love to be where they are. 

Herein, and right here, is where this *' small world" 
person gets disgusted with himself or herself, and be- 
gins to criticize the other; allowing thoughts of envy, 
jealousy and hatred to come forth, which cause them 
to say all manner of evil against the innocent falsely: 
thinking that his or her secret power is, probably, be- 
cause the other can play, sing, pray, work, or whatso- 
ever it may be, better than the small or weak person. 

The truth is very trying and cutting to the heart and 
mind when it is brought upon us. It cuts like a two- 
edged sword, and will keep on cutting until all shall 
turn from the error of their way : then this same sword 
of truth shall turn and act as a healing salve, and will 
bring peace, happiness and contentment unto all. 

No wonder, Jesus, in the early part of his ministry, 
said, *^ Think not that I am come to send peace on 
earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword.'' Yes, 
the sword of truth must first clear off and remove all 
the weeds, underbrush, and all trees of error, before 
the plowing and cultivation of ^^ peace and good will 
unto all men" can take place, and yield an abundant 
harvest. 

Has that time come in its fullness? No, not by any 
means! Not as long as every nation is afraid of the 
other; not as long as one nation has little faith in the 
other, and can not trust the brother and sister na- 
tions. Not as long as they must keep a large standing 
army (a yoke of Egyptian bondage), with swords in 
their hands, to strike the brother as did Peter, when 



60 ''Ye Shall Know the Truths and 

he thought he was doing the right thing. But the 
Lord soon showed him the perfect way, ^^Put up again 
thy sword into his place : for all that take the sword 
shall perish with the sword." Also, ''Thou savourest 
not the things that be of God, but those that be of 
men." 

''Woe unto the world because of offences! for it 
must needs be that offences come ; but woe to that man 
by whom the offence cometh!" 

We people, as a nation, should tell our neighbors 
that we are not going to use our swords in this way 
any more ; not that we know not how to use them, or 
that we are afraid to use them. No ! For the whole 
world knows better than that! For when^ "Uncle 
Sam" takes his "handkerchief" out of his pocket, he 
has a purpose in it. Not to go flirting it with bad 
women; no, he is either going to clean his nose, or is 
going to wipe away the tears from his sister's or 
brother's eyes, or is going to bind up the wounds of the 
broken-hearted who were stripped and bruised, and 
fell among thieves. 

Oh, go tell them we are going to mould our swords 
into plowshares and pruning-hooks ! And we'll fight 
them henceforth with the banner and sword of truth, 
peace and love. For, "righteousness exalteth a na- 
tion; but sin is a reproach to any people." 

There was a time when the prophet Joel needed his 
sword, it seems; but, thanks be to God that the 
prophets Isaiah and Micah spake on this wise: 

"And it shall com.e to pass in the last days, that 
the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/" 61 

in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above 
the hills ; and all nations shall flow unto it. 

*'And many people shall go and say, Come ye, let us 
go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the 
God of Jacob ; and he will teach us of his ways, and 
we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go 
forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusa- 
lem. 

'^And he shall judge among the nations, and shall 
rebuke many people : and they shall beat their swords 
into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning- 
hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, 
neither shall they learn war any mor^e/' 

Oh, what all has not greediness, ignorance and a mis- 
understanding of the Truth, and of one another, done ? 
Herein lies the beginning and foundation of the 
world's great slaughter-house. It is on this account 
so many duels and battles are and were fought. It 
is on this account so many lose their lives through love 
affairs — and other affairs. 

It was on account of Jesus Christ's charming ex- 
cellency over the blind scribes, Pharisees and all the 
hypocrites, that made them say, '^Behold, the whole 
world goeth after him ! This will never do ! we must 
do away with him! He will spoil our [corrupt] busi- 
ness ! ' ' The purity and truthfulness of Jesus was too 
much for them to endure. 

What shall we do? Here is bread— good, fresh, 
wholesome bread— that Jesus wishes all to be able to 
"obtain. But, on account of some receiving this bread 
sooner than others, and probably more than others, 
the ''small" brother or sister is made to offend. This 



62 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

eating of bread is a cause of offense, which goes on 
day after day and year after year ; in this respect you 
and I, and, indeed, all at some time during life, cause 
offense to some one unawares, and probably we are 
offended by another from the same cause. How shall 
we manage the affair? What shall we do? 

Shall we sit down and not do anything, because, by 
our activity and diligent, persistent efforts to seek, 
w^e have found something, and others are offended and 
become envious thereby, unawares or inevitably? Shall 
we stop our seeking, asking and knocking? No, oh, 
no ! We shall learn to forgive and overlook these 
weaknesses. 

It is said, ^^The two easiest things to give and the 
hardest to take in this world are. Castor Oil and Ad- 
vice." Yea, and I say, it is well at times that they 
are hard to take; only, when they are not based on 
truth, merely supposed truth. 

Now let me tell you what I did and have learned 
to do: If I meet any one who is of a charming dis- 
position, and is engaged in the same work, or what- 
soever it may be that I also am interested in, and this 
person can excel me in any or all of these things, I 
rejoice and am thankful that I have met such a one. 

I watch every movement, every action, every word, 
every smile ; in fact, I look everywhere and miss noth- 
ing, that I may know what that power is. What do 
you suppose has been revealed to me by doing so? 
This : We can not imitate some one else, and play the 
monkey in this great drama of life. 

The sooner we learn to be our natural selves, and 
throw off all unnaturalness, even if it is a customary 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 63 

practice— the wearing of the sheep or monkey skin— 
the sooner will the faith^ hope and love powers of the 
soul have a chance to come forth and run and glorify 
the Father, with the bearing of at least some good 
fruit. Not until then can you bear good fruit which 
is pleasing unto the Father. (Not necessarily pleasing 
to man ; for neither you nor I can do anything without 
some one ^^ kicking.'') 

Many people are buying and eagerly reading all 
kinds of books, on what is called ^* Personal Magnet- 
ism.'' There is no such thing, separately in itself, as 
personal magnetism. There is such a thing as what 
is called or understood as personal magnetism; but 
this is not what people are after. They are after that 
*^ something "which wdll make them charming, attrac- 
tive and loving; but the basis or root of this ^^some- 
thing" is not personal magnetism. Personal magnet- 
ism is only the noticeable, or the putting forth of 
the blossoms and fruit of this tree and roots. 

Allow me to say to such, that you will get a bath; 
but you are diving into the wrong water when you in- 
vest your money for a clear bath. 

I have been all along this line, and know whereof I 
speak. If you wish to be charming, loving, attractive, 
and to be loved by others,, which I am sure all wish 
to be, then please listen to these vrords, **Se£k ye first 
the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all 
these things shall be added unto you." 

After much anxiety and sorrow did I learn to realize 
that much of what is called personal magnetism is only 
''put on," or ''monkey clothing," but the true basis 
of personal magnetism is this, the great love of soul 



64 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

and the power of soul to love. This is the ''magnet" 
for here and hereafter. This is the ^'Magnet" of which 
they said, ''Behold, the world is gone after him!'' 
This is the ''Magnet" which said, ''I shall draw all 
men unto me." 

Just as you live your life here, so will the fruitage 
be here and after. Therefore be not envious; for this 
one thing shows the depth of your love, and also with- 
holds you from becoming the possessor of all that is 
good. By this you are closing the doors of the king- 
dom for yourself, and preventing others who are ready 
to enter therein. 

A better class of people to get along with, is where 
the centering goes outward. as well as inward, and also 
upward. 

They see that self is only a part, and not the whole 
world. These are found in all kinds of pursuits ; and 
know that their neighbors have feelings as well as 
themselves. 

They love the Golden Rule fairly well, but are not 
allowed to carry it into use as some would like, for 
fear of others, or other superstitious hindrances. 

Some are very fond of books. Some dive back- 
wards, deep into all the history of the past, trying to 
find something new; while Paul says, "But this one 
thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and 
reaching forth unto those things which are before, I 
press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling 
of God in Christ Jesus." 

Some read many books, which causes that fire in 
the breast to burn more intense, instead of becoming 
quenched. This is a very good sign. The soul is be- 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 65 

ginning to get very hungry and thirsty; but the food 
it receives does not fully satisfy: it only puts it in 
shape for greater hunger and thirst to come ; then an- 
other book is read, and still another. This hunger 
and thirst of the soul can only be quenched with the 
water and bread that have been prepared for it. 

Now, to such and unto all I say, turn to this bread 
and water of life, which is found in the Word by 
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and is distributed all 
through and in every room of this great storehouse; 
go eat, drink and live. Be not discouraged, but go 
once more to this storehouse of life and look into every 
room or chapter, and surely on some of the shelves, 
by the different walls, you will find just what you 
need. 

Go not to this storehouse merely for the name of 
having been there; no, if that is your only purpose, 
stay away until you have learned to see another pur- 
pose in it. 

If you ask some of this same class, who are laboring 
faithfully and doing the best they know how, whether 
they are satisfied after they have attained all that 
which they have set out to do, they will tell you there 
is something that they are after, but they know not 
what. This reference is to people in, as well as out 
of, the church. 

The apostle Paul says, ^*If ye have food and rai- 
ment, therewith be content." But before a man can 
be content with these things in this life, he must first 
become the possessor of the greatest gift that can be- 
fall any one ; and that is the receiving of the Comforter, 
or Spirit. 



66 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

We may obtain great riches of this world's goods; 
but all these things in themselves are vanity and vexa- 
tion of spirit. Labor not to become rich, but labor to 
do good; and if, by so doing, you should obtain quite 
a few things of this world, you may be sure that your 
Avork has been blessed. 

The third class comprises those whose affections are 
centered more outward and especially upward. The 
pattern of this class is the Lord Jesus himself. This, 
the highest or meekest class, are the honored servants. 
The true followers were the apostles. This is the kind 
that shall receive, for their reward, an hundred-fold. 
The members of this class are, at present, few and ex- 
ceedingly far between. I have heard of them, but it 
has not been my lot to meet such. I have met several 
of the second class, for which I am thankful, and I ex- 
pect to meet still others ; but of all these, Jesus would 
say, ''0 ye of little faith." Many are striving for\ 
this perfection ; but some need ladders to help them out ' 
of the deep-worn, narrow ruts. 

This third class is gradually coming. We have the 
promise given and mentioned four different times : 
''And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, 
I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your 
sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your 
young men shall see visions, and your old men Shall 
dream dreams." 

Oh, what peace, happiness and contentment yet to 
come ! ! ! 



The Truth Shall Make You Free." 67 

CHAPTER IV. 

THE POWER OF OUR BELIEFS. 

Are all of our beliefs built upon the Rock, or are' ) 
many of them built upon rock-powder? This is the / 
gravest question that has confronted every nation, 
every generation, every denomination and every in- 
dividual. I shall ask this question again, Are our be- 
liefs built upon the true Christ rock, or on rock-pow- 
der? 

The mistaking in the foundation is the cause of all 
the bloodshed that has ever taken place. It is oa 
account of centering our affections too much on *' beau- 
tiful" lies!! View it from whatever point you wish, 
it was a rock-powdered belief from the one side, or 
both, that caused the trouble, or disaster. 

Pursue not truth too hastily, but pursue it diligent- 
ly, and it will come to you gradually. 

Remember, our beliefs hold and control us : we hold 
not our beliefs. Let something happen, or come about 
or upon you, that will change your belief, and you 
also w^ll change, according to the greatness of that 
power which has wrought this change. Eemember, 
also, everything that you believe, is truth to you, 
whether it is the real truth, the Rock, or not. 

You can not believe anything that does not sound 
like truth to you, even though it be the truth; but 
you can believe that which is not the truth; because 
it sounds like truth to you. I will repeat the same | 
thought in a shorter way. You can not believe any- j 



68 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

\ thing that is not truth to you, but you can believe that 
Avhich is not the truth. 

You may ask, ''Why is this?" It is because we all 
have eaten ''of the tree of knowledge of good and 
evil;" which causes the faculties of the human mind to 
be capable of believing a lie. Yes., capable of building 
on rock-powder, while thinking you are building upon 
the true Rock. 

Not one of us knows one-half as much of the truth 
as we ought to know. The more we know of the truth, 
the Rock, the greater are and will be our capabilities 
of detecting the rock-powder. 

Need I to wonder whether the poet, J. G. Whittier, 
caught some of the musical thought-vibrations from 
the Infinite when he wrote : 

*'0h for boyhood's painless play. 
Sleep that wakes in laughing day; 
Health that mocks the doctor's rules, 
Knowledge never learned at schools." 

No, I wonder not at all, for "Jesus answered and 
said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for 
flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto fhee, but my 
Father which is in heaven." If we could know the 
trutl^ as well as Jesus Christ (who is the truth and 
rock), we could no more -be deceived by others than 
he was. 

Do you remember of reading that incident where 
Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well ? He said 
unto her, "Go, call thy husband, and come hither." 
Notice how she tried to give Jesus some of the rock- 
powder, "I have no husband'' (meaning to say, "I 



The Truth Shall Malce You Free/' 69 

have no husband at all'')- Jesus, turning or changing 
the first meaning of her '^powder" into the truth, 
said, ^^Thou hast well said thou hast no husband.'* 
To the second, or the meaning which the woman had 
in mind when she gave the powdered answer, Jesus set 
a match with these words, *'For thou hast had five 
husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy hus- 
band/' 

You all know what happens to rock-powder when 
fire touches it. "Well, such shall be the end of all be- 
liefs that are built upon rock-powder instead of the 
true Rock. 

You can hold a dozen burning matches to the truth, 
or heat your furnace seven times as hot as for ordi- 
nary purposes, and the Rock on the outer parts will 
even not be tarnished, and the Rock will always 
stay unchanged; but be careful that the outburst- 
ing flames from the door, or the shortness of the 
match, will not turn and burn you, or enclose you in 
your own trap. Therefore, 

"Be not deceived; 
God is not mocked: 
For whatsoever a man soweth, 
That shaU he also reap/' 

Using the generic term, will say^ The man who be- 
lieves himself to be better than any other man, in this 
one thing is deceiving himself, and is building on rock,- 
powder. 

The man of any nationality, who believes that he 
is better than all the others, simply on account of his 
nationality, deceiveth himself and is liable to explode. 



70 'Te Sliall Know the Truth, and 

The man who believes that he is better than any 
other, simply because he has a drop of royal blood 
trickling in his veins, and he a descendant of the fourth 
or twent^^-fourth generation of that family, deceiveth 
himself, and forgets that God is no respecter of family, 
member or blood. 

The man who believes and says, ''The world owes 
me a living," yet will not do one thing toward bring- 
ing about that living, is a liar and the truth is not 
in him. 

The world owes no one a living ! It only owes us a 
living when we go and earn it— providing we are able. 
The apostle Paul says, ''Study to be quiet, and to do 
your own business, and to work with your own hands ; 
. . . and those that will not work, shall not eat." 

The man who believes that he is better than his 
neighbors, deceiveth himself, and the truth is not in 
him in the measure that it should be. For the Lord 
may exalt his neighbor far above him in his presence, 
or before his body is laid away. Why is this? Because 
God's ways are not our ways ; therefore, let us strive to 
make our ways God's ways. 

''Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth 
I perceive that God is no respecter of persons : but in 
every nation he that feareth him, and worketh right- 
eousness, is accepted with him." 

How often are we withheld from doing that which 
we ought to do, and doing that which we ought not to 
do, simply on account of the power of our beliefs. The 
same thought in other words: How often do we find 
ourselves doing things that prove afterwards to be 
false, or built upon rock-powder. 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 71 

If a man believes he can be successful in whatsoever 
he undertakes to reach or gain, he must comply with 
the laws by which these things are accomplished. If 
a man believes he can accomplish these things in any 
other way, he is buildii^g on rock-powder. This is the 
cause of so many failures. 

If a man believes he can enter into the kingdom of 
God, he must comply with the law by which he can 
enter. He must comply with the law the same as he 
does before he enters the door of a circus, the exposi- 
tion, or an entertainment of any kind. He must have a 
ticket. If he has not the means to obtain one, he has 
the pleasure of staying on the outside. 

Now the question arises. What are the means by 
which we can obtain a ticket to enter the kingdom, 
and, what is this ticket? The means to obtain this 
ticket is, to work, seek, learn and know how to become 
''meek and lowly in heart." The ticket is the gift of 
God, the receiving of the Comforter, or ''Ye must be 
born again;" of which I will try to give a faint idea, 
at leasts in the next chapter. 



72 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, dnA 



CHAPTER V. 

**YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN.'' 

There is nothing to laugh at, or to sneer about on our 
part in the least, when we read the account of Nico- 
demus conversing with Jesus about his soul's welfare. 

Nieodemus was in earnest. He was not ashamed to 
ask all kinds of questions, even though he did display 
his ignorance. He wanted to know what that meant, 
^*to be born again." Let me tell you, we must all 
know what it means, if we wish to enter into the king- 
dom of God. 

Many are displaying a greater ignorance on this 
subject than did Nieodemus. His conversation with 
Jesus saves us the trouble of asking the same questions, 
but saves us not from asking a more ignorant one. 

For the benefit of those who have never read or 
heard it, it will be well to give the serious part : 

^^ Jesus answered and said unto him. Verily, verily, 
I say unto thee. Except a man be born again, he cannot 
see the kingdom of God. 

*' Nieodemus saith unto him. How can a man be born 
when he is old? can he enter the second time into his 
mother's womb, and be born? 

''Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he 
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 

''That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that 
which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 73 

''Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born 
again. 

' ' The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest 
the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, 
and whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of 
the Spirit.'' 

Dear reader, I know not what your experience has 
been, is, or will be in this new birth, but I shall tell 
you a little of mine : only for the sake and good of 
those who are without this peace, and for the honor 
and glory of the Lord God. 

Twenty-seven years have I wandered and wondered 
in darkness. You may say, ''What ! have you been liv- 
ing the life of a wicked person? Is your record that 
of a low, degrading thief or .bummer, and have you 
never seen the inside of a church ? ' ' 

No, my record is not such. But I believe and 
know that, in the sight of God, it was no better. For 
it is written: "I know thy works, that thou art neither 
cold nor hot : I w^ould thou wert cold or hot. 

"So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither 
cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 

"Because thou say est, I am rich, and increased with 
goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that 
thou art v/retched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, 
and naked : 

"I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, 
that thou mayest be rich ; and white raiment, that thou 
mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness 
[thy ignorance of the weightier matters of the law] 
do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve 



74 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

[with the Christ mind and understanding], that thou 
mayest see. 

*'As many as I love [and love me], I rebuke and 
chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent." 

I have lived, from my youth up, what people call a 
good Christian life. Those who are strangers to me 
need not take my word for it, but ask any of my neigh- 
bors and friends. I care not who you ask : no one can 
honestly say that my life's record is not equal to any 
of theirs. But remember this, I care not what people 
say of me ; that is not the point I wish to make plain : 
the point is this^ I can live a so-called Christian life, 
and yet in reality it is only a moral life. 

I have kept the commandments, and lived a moral 
life to the best of my ability: and yet I lacked one 
thing. I was baptized in my infancy, and have been a 
church-member for more than fifteen years; neither 
have I defiled the garments of any woman; yet did I 
lack one thing. 

There was an unquietness in my breast that I 
thought I could satisfy by learning book-keeping ; but 
this did not satisfy. Then I turned my attention to 
photography; but this was of no avail. I next set out 
to satisfy my longings by teaching school; but this 
did not satisfy, although I opened the morning exer- 
cises of each day by reading a portion of Scripture, 
after which we repeated the Lord's Prayer in concert. 
By looking over my Bible, or rather my mother's (for 
mine happened to be a large family Bible), I find marks 
distributed all through the Book of Proverbs and in 
the first four of the New Testament. 



The Truth Shall Malce You Freer 75 

During the summer months I worked at the car- 
penter trade; still that unknown, dissatisfied longing 
was with me. 

While working at this trade, it was my good for- 
tune to meet a certain party whom I particularly no- 
ticed had something, or was the possessor of some- 
thing, that I did not have. I did not then know what 
it was (or is), but it was my ideal of a true Christian. 
I said to myself, if there is a way to find out this 
unknown something, or hidden treasure, I will find it. 

So I went to work. I pulled down from the shelves 
all books that were written on politeness, manners, 
culture and dress. The more I read, the more I was 
confused. The more I ^^polited,'' the more I ^'man- 
nered," the more I cultured, and the more I dressed, 
the further did I get away from the mark. These 
things proved to be only foolishness, vanity and vexa- 
tion of spirit. 

I then had a narrow^ conception of the beautiful 
thoughts which Paul expressed in these words : ^ ' Char- 
ity [the spirit of love] suffer eth long, and is kind; love 
envieth not ; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 

''Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her 
own [but seeketh those which have and are straying, 
or, leaving the ninety and nine, goeth after the one 
which maketh the round number], is not easily pro- 
voked, thinketh no evil ; 

"Eejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the 
truth.'' 

I next took up the study of phrenology, chiromancy, 
13hysiognomy and astrology. These studies gave me 



76 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

more satisfaction than the ones before. In the study 
of phrenology, I happened to stumble over these lines : 

"Man, know thyself; presume not God to scan, 
For the proper study of mankind is man." 

This made me feel a little better. And, repeating 
these words several times, ^'Man, know thyself," I 
thought— yes, dear brother, that is what I am after, but 
I know not where to look, or what part of myself I am 
to know. 

Some of you may say, ^^I would not speak this way 
of myself— confessing and showing my ignorance." 
But let me say right here, whosoever is so minded, is 
cultivating the evil spirit in this matter, and need not 
to expect to receive more truth and understanding 
while in this state of mind. 

I write not these things for myself, or to show how 
ignorant I w^as ; but if, by so doing, I can inspire a new 
hope and gain some poor wanderer, I will do it, regard- 
less of myself and what others may think contrary or 
say of me. 

The apostle Paul speaks of this when he said, *'For 
though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself 
servant unto all, that I might gain the more." 

The apostle James speaks of it in this way, ' ' Confess 
your faults one to another, and pray one for another, 
that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer 
of a righteous man availeth much. ' ' 

Whenever each Sabbath day came (I use the word 
Sabbath instead of Sunday, because I find it written as 
Sabbath wherever Jesus made mention of this day), 
I would go to church and listen to the sermon. Some 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 77 

days I would go home feeling quite happy, believing I 
was on the right road ; and probably the next Sabbath 
I would hear something that would cause me to ask 
the same question that was asked nearly nineteen cen- 
turies ago, *^Who then can be saved?" 

During this time, while I was searching for this 
*^ something" and trying to know myself (for the hard- 
est person to get acquainted with is yourself), I be- 
came particularly interested in my little baby nephew, 
who since has fallen asleep. 

Wilbert at this time was about ten months old. He 
was a very peculiar child (so are all of God's chosen 
people), unlike most children. He very seldom cried, 
no matter what happened. He had a sweet smile for 
every one. He was so sensible and so old-fashioned 
for his age, that no one could escape noticing it. 

If his little sister (older than he) would get into 
some mischief, and ''Doody" (as she called him) would 
see it, he would look at her with an expression of sad- 
ness and say, ''Ah\ a-k a-k!" and then would look at 
his mother. 

At this time a thought came to me Avhich brought 
with it the recollection of these words, ^^Ye must be- 
come humble as little children," which caused me to 
say to Wilbert 's mother, ''I see in him an innocent 
purity which must be a part of the make-up of the 
holy child Jesus." 

The life of this little child, and of that' person 
whom I met, contrasted, compared and blended to- 
gether, gave me a better clew to what I was after than 
all my studies. But I give the greater credit to this 
little, humble, pure, innocent child, Wilbert. This is 



78 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

why I have placed his photograph at the beginning of 
this work, instead of my own, as is customary— for he 
is worthy. 

His little life was as a *^lamp unto my feet and a 
light unto my path," in finding that peace which pass- 
eth all understanding. This same incident also fulfills, 
in one sense of the word, this saying, *'And a little 
child shall lead them." 

I tried to quench my thirst with water that causes 
thirst again; that is, the writings and teachings and 
commandments and doctrines of men: had I turned 
and searched the epistles of Jesus and the apostles, I 
would have f oimd what I was after ; but, thanks be to 
the Father, Son and Holy Ghost that I observed and 
read some of it from the living epistles of the ones I 
have mentioned. 

My great hindrance was this: I did not know that 
I was not yet born of the Spirit. I thought I had all 
that was coming to me in tx/:* life. Had I been a 
worldly tramp, it would not have been so hard for me 
to detect what I really was after or needed. But when 
I began to realize my uuAvorthiness, my high-floating 
sinfulness, my certainty and great need of a Saviour, 
and how far I was from the mark— I, with great agony 
of mind and heart, fell to the floor and prayed as did 
the poor publican, *'God be merciful to me a sinner." 
Then the light began to come, more and more, until 
one day it was so powerful, or in such a measure, that I 
had a similar experience of which Paul speaks, ^*I 
knew not whether I was in the body or out." 

I heard and saw with the ear and eye of my soul as 
never before even dreamed of. I have heard the sweetest 



The Truth Shall MaJce You Free/' 79 

strains of music and of love that ever man heard, or 
that I have ever heard tell of in this generation. I felt 
and saw, as it were, angels hovering round about me, 
singing these heavenly strains of music full of peace 
and love. What could I do? I could do nothing but 
weep for joy. 

No wonder Paul said, '^Eye hath not seen, nor hath 
ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of 
man, what God hath prepared for them that love him," 
when a person can get such a wonderful foretaste of it 
even in this life. 

Those in the rear pews noticed my strangeness of 
action ; but they did not understand this peculiar weep- 
mg of mine. I know not how I handled myself in the 
sight of others,, but heard afterward that they thought 
I was weeping over some departed friend; but there 
was no departed one in this case : it was a new-born 
friend. 

I knew then what Jesus meant when he said in 
words something like these, ^^ There shall be more joy 
in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than ninety 
and nine just persons." Also these words, ^^ Believe on^ 
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. ' ' 

Whosoever is born of the Spirit, knows it, and there 
is no guessvv' ork about it : neither does he need to w^ait 
until he dies, to know Avhether his name is written in 
the Lamb's book of life. Now is the time ! Now is the 
day of salvation ! 

^'And these signs shall follow them that believe: 
In my name shall they cast out devils ; they shall speak 
with new tongues ; 



80 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

' ' They shall take up serpents, and if they drink any 
deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay 
hands on the sick, and they shall recover." 

To be born of the Spirit is on this wise ; No doubt 
all of you have fallen in love with some one of the 
opposite sex, at one time or another. "What were your 
thoughts one toward another? "Were they of malice, 
envy, hatred, etc., or were they of love,, peace, joy, 
longsuffering, kindness, gentleness, and doing every- 
thing that you thought would please the other? 

Also, did you have the thoughts of murdering, rob- 
bing, beating and despitefully treating the parents or 
family of whom your lover or loved one was, or is, a 
member thereof? No ; if there is any true love on your 
part, you would and will not. 

Well, such is the case to be born of the Spirit. 
You fall into such a deep love with Jesus that you 
will freely and gladly do the good I have mentioned. 
But this falling in love is of such a high order that 
there are no spats or quarrels. You receive such a 
measure of peace and happiness as no earthly lover can 
give. His peace and love passeth all understanding. I 
can not describe it ; but I am trying to. 

Now, remember, Jesus also has and comes from a 
large family called the nations of the earth; and he 
would not have you to harm any of his parents or 
brothers and sisters. Therefore, dear parents and 
brothers and sisters, I pray thee, fall first in love with 
Jesus, and you will find you will have plenty of love 
left for your earthly partner. If he or she is not satis- 
fied to be ''second best" in this matter, he or she is not 
worthy of you. 



The Truth Shall Make You Free!' 81 

If you think you can go through life's journey with- 
out this second love or helpmeet, you have the privi- 
lege to do so. But if you can not, and try to do so, 
and thereby commit adultery, you are a thousand times 
better off to marry. For Paul says, ''It is better to 
marry than to burn." 

He who says, ''There is no God, no Saviour, no Holy 
Spirit, and no glorious hereafter," is a liar, and the 
truth is not in him. But this also will I say, A great 
many are soaring and carrying themselves too high; 
that is, too proud. Therefore many, many, m-a-n-y, 
miss this glorious gift of God. 

Too many are soaring too low— bumping against 
every fleshy stump, fence, bramble-bush, hornet's nest, 
gambling-den, and every snag to which sin is heir. 
And whatsoever little vitality and body is left, this is 
also finished or wasted in all manner of excessive 
drinks. 

Oh, go learn what that meaneth, "I am meek and 
lowly in heart : and ye shall find rest unto your souls." 
It means neither of the above ways of living. Oh, 
go learn what that meaneth, "Be ye of the same mind 
that was also in Christ Jesus." Oh, go learn what 
that meaneth, "Ye are they which justify yourselves 
before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that 
which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination 
in the sight of God." 

Remember and know that the memory of the soul 
is perfect. Every good and evil deed that is done, 
is safely and accurately recorded in the soul. The 
memory is perfect; but our powers to recall are not 
perfect or the same ; some are greater than others. 



82 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

sinner, take courage once more! "Wake up! 
Cheer up ! Look up ! Stand up for Jesus ! Think not 
that you are too bad, too corrupt, and that there is 
no hope for you ! For just such as you and me, male 
and female, Jesus came to save. 

Come, allow Him to introduce you to his twin 
brother, the Comforter. Oh, get acquainted with him ! 
that the apostle need no longer say of us Gentiles or 
Jews, ^*Ye stiffnecked, and uncircumcised in heart 
and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your 
fathers did, so do ye." 

Tou need not build high towers or get long ladders 
to get up to where the Spirit, the Comforter, is, in order 
to speak to him. Neither do you need to put on all 
kinds of airs, and twist your mouth into all shapes 
while you speak; making others believe that you are 
so good that even butter or sugar would not melt 
in your mouth. 

Neither need nor can you be of a dry, long, sour 
face, the whole livelong day. How can the Spirit of 
love dwell in such a temple? These are a few of the 
things which cause the doors to be closed and securely 
latched, always when the Comforter is on the outside, 
wishing to get in. ^^ Behold, I stand at the door, and 
knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, 
I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he 
with me." 

God has created within us a cosy little dwelling- 
place for the Comforter; if we only would not close 
the door on him, whenever he does want to move in. 
Therefore, let your tenant, the Comforter, the Spirit, 
come in: and here is how he pays his rent, '^Though 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 83 

your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; 
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as 
wool.'' 

Let me tell you, if you are born of the Spirit, you 
are the most common and happiest person on earth- 
even if you have not a cent of money. But here is the 
great bank check for this life and hereafter; notice 
how it reads: ^'Seek ye first the kingdom of God, 
and his righteousness; and all these things shall be 
added unto you." 

THE WOMEN 

will be as happy in their calicoes and ginghams as in 
their silks and satins. You Avill feel and be just as 
happy and content in the kitchen as in the parlor. 
You will be just as happy to be ''Biddy" as you will 
to be ''bossy." 

You will be just as happy with a silver ring, or no 
ring, as with your gold and flashy diamonds. 

You will be just as happy fingering the washboard, 
as you will be fingering the piano. 

As this book is written for all classes, will say, 
Some of you will live exceedingly far more happy 
with one husband than with a half-dozen. 

Not one of you, if you are born of the Spirit, will 
spend almost all of your husband's wages for style on 
yourself, and leave your husband and children and 
table go almost bare. 

Not one of you will greet or meet your husband at 
the door with a fiery tongue and a broom-stick or 
poker, when he comes home from his daily toil. 



84 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

Not one of yon will do anything that yon are afraid 
or ashamed to let yonr Imsband know. There will be 
no corrupt secrets. 

If yonr hnsband is born of the Spirit, you need not 
be afraid of him coming home drunk, even though 
he does use it in the way and manner in which Jesus 
and his disciples used it. 

For both sexes— ''To-day, if ye would hear his 
voice, harden not your hearts." ''Ye shall know the 
truth, and the truth shall make you free." It is not 
lies that make you free ; but it is the truth. 

Here is where the "devil" will make a loud howl, 
before he is cast out. 

I shall quote the sayings which Jesus himself pro- 
claimed freely and publicly to the world, and also 
those of the apostles. But before I give these sayings, 
I will first give these words again which you read in 
the first chapter of this book. (The truth of all matters 
will come out, even if it does take centuries of time; 
but it is coming, and always will come, until the 
Lord's Prayer is fulfilled.) 

Jesus wants us to know the whole truth, not only 
one-fourth of it or a smatter of it; such will never 
make you free. Therefore read the New Testament 
yourself. I am not going to tell you where you will 
find the following passages of Scripture. For it is my 
heart's desire that you will read a little every day 
until you find them all. Stay not forever away back 
in the wilderness of Moab, among the Moabites and 
mosquito-bites! I speak both to the Jews and Gen- 
tiles. For the Lord wants all to leave Kadesh-barnea, 
and cross the brook Zered and enter into the New 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 85 

Covenant, and become acquainted with the apostles. 
Oh, go read, learn and live ! 

**He that hath ears to hear, let him hear/' 

**For John the Baptist came neither eating bread 
nor drinking wine ; and ye say, He hath a devil. ' ' 

This pure, innocent man, whose meat was locust and 
wild honey, did not suit the people; so Jesus came 
altogether in a different way: 

''The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and 
ye say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a 
friend of publicans and sinners!" 

I am sorry to say that even in this advanced and 
adulterous generation, if a man wants to live the life 
and follow closely in the footsteps of his Master, and 
drink in the manner he did, the same is said of him as 
it was of Jesus, and especially by the blind guides of 
all generations. 

All truth is good for the soul, and defiles not any 
man. Neither can nor will the Avhole world be dra\\Ti 
to Christ until the whale truth is presented to the 
world, and the whole truth lived by those w^ho pre- 
sent it. 

''He that her.reth you, heareth me; and he that de- 
spiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, 
despiseth him that sent me." 

''Ye blind guides! which strain at a gnat, and swal- 
low a camel." 

"Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven 
unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewithso- 
ever they shall blaspheme : 

"But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy 



86 ''Ye Shan Know the Truth, and 

Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eter- 
nal damnation; [Beware! beware! and why?] 

''Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit." 

''And when he had called all the people unto him, 
he said unto them, Hearken unto me, every one of you, 
and understand: 

"There is nothing from without a man that, enter- 
ing into him, can defile him: but the things which 
come out of him, those are they that defile the man. 

"If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. 

"And when he was entered into the house from the 
people, his disciples asked him concerning the par- 
able. 

"And he saith unto them, Are ye so without under- 
standing also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever 
thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot 
defile him ; 

"Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the 
belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all 
meats ? 

"And he said, That which cometh out of the man, 
that defileth the man. 

"For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed 
evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication, murders, thefts, 
covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an 
evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 

"All these evil things come from within, and defile 
the man." 

Oh, go learn what that meaneth, "Ye must be born 
again." 

"I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that 
there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that 



The Truth Shall MaJre You Freer 87 

esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is un- 
clean." - 

*^And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; 
but be filled with the Spirit.'' 

Ye blind guides, which strain at a glass of wine, 
and can freely swallow all things which lead to lep- 
rosy ! Know ye not that human nature is on this wise, 
the more you withhold anything, the more precious it 
becomes in their sight, and the more will they be after 
it? Let them have the measure that the Lord allows, 
and they will not crave for it. Hear these words : 

^^Nay but, man, who art thou that repliest against 
God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed 
it, Why hast thou made me thus ? 

^^Hath not the potter power over the clay of the 
same lump to make one vessel unto honour and an- 
other unto dishonour?" 

'^Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the 
latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving 
heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils: 
speaking lies in hypocrisy ; having their conscience 
seared with a hot iron; 

''Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain 
from meats, which God hath created to be received 
with thanksgiving of them which believe and know 
the truth. 

''For every creature of God is good, and nothing to 
be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it 
is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. 

"Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them 
that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but 
even their mind and conscience is defiled. 



88 ''Ye Shall Knoiv the Truth, and 

'*Tliey i:>rofess that tlie}^ know God; but in works 
they deny him^ being abominable, and disobedient, 
and unto every good work reprobate." 

*'And these signs shall follow them that believe 
in my name shall they east out devils ; they shall speak 
with new tongues; 

' ' They shall take up serpents ; and if they drink any 
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay 
hands on the sick, and they shall reeovei." 

''Not every one that saith unto me. Lord, Lord, shall 
enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth 
the will of my Father which is in heaven." 

The blind guide says, ''Let the Rechabites teach 
us." I say, Let the Lord Jesus Christ teach us!! 
Can the Rechabites save us?? "Shall not the Judge 
of all the earth do right?" 

The blind guide may also say as I did at one time, 
"Yes, but the wine that Jesus made and drank was 
unfermented. It did not have time to ferment." 

This seems true to the rock-powdered belief; but 
what about the bread with which Jesus fed the five 
thousand? Did it have time to raise, or even to 
bake? 

"Yes, but Jesus had a foundation to begin with; 
he took the five loaves and gave thanks, and brake the 
bread and blessed it: and as he did so, the amount 
increased." 

Well, did he not likewise have the water-pots filled 
to the brim to begin with? And he blessed the water, 
and changed it into better wine than that which they 
had in the beginning of the marriage feast. 



The Truth Shall Make Yo% Free/' 89 

*'And when they [the apostles] wanted wine, the 
mother of Jesus said unto him, They have no wine. ' ' 

Oh, what ignorance and blindness personified! 
Jesus does not want us to be ignorant in these things, 
or in anything. Listen as to what he has to say 
further on this subject. But before I give His words, 
it will be well to say that in olden times it seems as if 
they made their bottles out of leather, or some ma- 
terial that would only last or be safe for one year. 
Yet, if the wine which Jesus drank and spake of, were 
of the unfermented kind only, he would not have had 
need to mention these words: 

**And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; 
else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled, 
and the bottles shall perish. [What is the cause?] 

''But new wine must be put into new bottles; and 
both are preserved." 

The spiritual meaning of these lines can be made 
very plain with a few words of prayer from David, 
''Create, O God, a 'new' heart [the new bottle] and a 
right spirit [the right kind of wine] within me.'' 
(But the temporal meaning is just what it says.) 

"No man also having drunk old wine straightway 
desireth new: for he saith. The old is better." (Yea, 
the wine, "I am," of which Abraham drank, is old, 
yet new, or the right kind.) 

The blind guide also speaks on this wise, "Taste 
not ; touch not ; handle not ; ' ' and then he stops short, 
as if some one had hit him. 

"What is it that we shall not touch, taste or handle? 
Listen, and you shall hear the whole thought or ut- 
terance; and I shall not stop on a semicolon: 



90 ''Ye Shall luioiv the Truth, and 

''Touch not; taste not; handle not; 

''Which all are to perish with the using; after the 
commandments and doctrines of men. 

"Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in 
will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the 
body ; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. ' ' 

The apostle Paul wrote to the young minister, Tim- 
othy, these words: 

"Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be par- 
taker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure. 

"Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for 
thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities." 

Paul has also written these lines to his son Timothy : 

"Neither give heed to fables and endless genealo- 
gies, which minister questions, rather than godly edify- 
ing— which is in faith; so do. 

"Now the end of the commandment is love out of a 
pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith un- 
feigned : 

"From which some having swervv^d, have turned 
aside unto vain jangling; 

"Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding 
neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. 

' ' But we know that the law is good, if a man use it 
lawfully; 

"Knowing this, that the law is not made for a 
righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, 
for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and pro- 
fane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of moth- 
ers, for manslayers, 

'*For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves 
with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured 



The Truth Shall Mal-e You Free/' 91 

persona, and if there be any other thing that is con- 
trar}^ to sound doctrine; 

''According to the glorious gospel of the blessed 
God, which was committed to my trust. (What per- 
son is there that the above ''boot," or "shoe," or 
"slipper" does not fit?) 

In conclusion on these things, I will give you the 
same advice w^hich I have taken for myself. Oh, how 
easy or devilish it is to cast the blame on others, or 
on this or that— when, all the while, the true founda- 
tion, of this corruption is who? Why, the devil— our 
Satanic heart and mind! This is the first, great and 
only cause ! Stop ! Halt ! Admit and take upon 
yourself your share of the blame of every sin that is 
due :— I am not speaking to your neighbor just now, 
but to you ! Get your heart and mind right with your 
Creator and Redeemer, and you will then know who 
and what to blame first!! 

"For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness 
thereof." 

"Be ye temperate in all things. Let not him that 
eateth and drinketh, despise him that eateth and 
drinketh not ; and let not him which eateth and drink- 
eth not, judge him that eateth and drinketh. There- 
fore if ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do it all 
to the glory of God. 

"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in 
drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new 
moon, or of the sabbath days: 

"Which are a shadow of things to come; but the 
body is of Christ." 



92 'Te Shall Knotv the Truth, and 

Turning our attention again to the happiness of 
spiritual women, will ^^ay, not one of you will be idlers^ 
tattlers, talebearers, or creating ^' Three black crow'' 
stories about your ne^ghbors or busybodies in others' 
affairs! But you will be chaste; keepers and lovers 
of home; tending to your own duties; working with 
your own hands instead of the mouth; helping 
'^ Biddy" to bear the burdens. 

But the saddest and most corrupt wickedness in 
*'high places" is this— Not one of you, if born of the 
Spirit, who has given birth to a child, will be so cor- 
rupt in heart as to do away with its dear little life, 
or allow it to be artificially nursed with a bottle by a 
nurse, when the great, loving, all-wise God has pro- 
vided and given you healthy paps for it to suck ! ! 

Oh, what a shame, a sin-cursed shame, to allow such 
a little one, whom Jesus took up in his arms and 
blessed, to fall into everybody's hands, and allow it 
to grow up not knowing in reality who its mother is. 

What would become of this world if all mothers 
would do such things? Know ye not that the good, 
motherly training of a child is the greatest riches that 
you can bestow upon it? Blessed and happy is the 
child whose parents are born of the same mind that 
was also in Christ Jesus. 

Did you happen to hear some one say, '^Blessed are 
the paps that never gave suck"? And probably some 
one else tried to fulfill this portion of Scripture, and, 
to be right up to date and in style, you thought you 
would try the experiment before looking it up, to see 
what the Lord says about it. Did you? 

For fear you should not find it, mother, I will give 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 93 

it in the exact words, and show you how far you are 
from the mark: 

''For, behold, the days are coming in which they 

shall say. Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that 

never bare, and the paps which never gave suck." 

(Remember, this is only what the Lord said they shall 

'say.) 

Oh, where is thy virginity? You must be barren; 
thy womb must not be disturbed, nor bear ''one 
month, two months,'' or the full time: and then only 
is the above saying fulfilled, or carried out. 

But listen as to what the Lord has to say further 
on this same subject: "Then shall they begin to say 
to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills. Cove? 
us." 

"For if they do these things in a green tree, what 
shall be done in the dry?" 

It will be well for the young ladies to understand 
the things that are mentioned in this work; yea, all 
mankind as well. There are a few words in store 
for you, 

YOUNG WOMEN. 

Not one of you, if born of the Spirit, will appear to 
be a charming angel in the presence of your beau, and 
a cross, cranky, fretting, pouting babe when he is 
absent. 

Neither will you keep company with one hundred 
and one, and choose the worst; nor will you allow 
your sacred parlor to become a Babylonian palace. 

Neither will you powder and paint, and paint and 
powder. For then you will remember that the same 



94 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

Spirit which paints and powders the roses, and gives 
beauty and symmetry to the lilies, will also cause a 
glow to come upon your cheeks and lips, and cause 
your heart to throw off a lasting fragrance that is 
sweeter than all the roses, and will attract a thousand 
times more than all your paints and powders; and 
that other abomination in the sight of God— the love 
of misery— the life-crusher— the corset. 

You need not be afraid to be caught in a rain or 
dread the warmth of a sultry day: God's paints do 
not wash off. 

Neither will you be jealous and envious over your 
neighbor-sister, and say^ ''She is not half as good- 
looking, not half as rich, not half as educated, not 
half as gracefully shaped, not half the finery, not half 
the jewelry, not half the musician, not half the head 
of hair, not half the doll-spanned waist, and not half 
her own teeth;" yet, with that ''half -half" that she 
has in your sight, she can outshine you in the hearts 
of others; because she has imbibed the Spirit of love 
and faitk and trusts it to do the rest. So, also, must 
and will you. For where there is perfect love, there is 
great confidence, and no need of jealousy; because the 
faith, hope and love powers make the confidence and 
trust so strong that envy and jealousy are cast out. 

Not one of you will say to "John," nor will he say, 
' ' I have this much, that much, or a large fortune com- 
ing to me when we are married;" after which these 
things prove to be air castles. 

Not one of you will say, "John here, John there, 
dear Johnny everywhere;" and, patting him on the 
head, say, "Come, Johnny, be my little poodle! Come, 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 95 

let me tie this ribbon around your dear little neck, 
that I may fasten this beautiful silk cord to it." No, 
not any more; but you will say, '^John, as thou wilt, 
or as we will;" and both pull together. 

Jesus said, ''I came not to destroy the law and the 
prophets; but to fulfill" (to complete it). 

The following law is one which was taken by the 
Spirit of the apostles, and seasoned and salted the 
New Testament as well as the prophets did the Old; 
that no one, with all other methods and devilish de- 
vices, can corrupt or spoil it. 

Neither can you expect to prosper and live happy, 
contrary to it. You may as well try to exchange 
places with the moon as try to prosper and live a 
happy, contented life contrary to the law and will of 
God. Yet how many are trying to do this very 
thing. 

Gen. iii. 16: ^^Unto the woman he said, I will greatly 
multiply thy sorrow, and thy conception : in sorrow 
thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall 
be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." 

New Testament : ' ^ But I would have you know, that 
the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the 
woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." 
(Doth not nature teach us so?) 

If you are born of the Spirit, you will present or 
place your ''goods" on the market— not your valua- 
bles, but your heart— with all sincerity and honesty, 
hiding nothing: and if ''John" does not love you as 
much if he finds you in your calicoes, and perhaps 
doughy or stove-polished hands, remember he is not 
worthy of you. Yea, cursed is that villain whose only 



96 , ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

object is to deceive!! using his slippery tongue in all 
schemes and methods upon the pure and innocent 
one ; not to win her heart for life, but her body far a 
season. villain ! miserable wretch ! in common or 
finest apparel, if you have no better object in life than 
the satisf^ang of thine adulterous appetite, go stay 
with thy kind., and let the innocent alone ! But I 
would rather that ye turn and live. 

I pity those young women who know nothing of the 
kitchen and its duties ; who expect to get married and 
feed their husband on music, or on the sounds of a 
typewriting machine, or some other of the accomplish- 
ments: providing they can not afford to hire a 
''Biddy." Even in such a case, where they can af- 
ford to hire, I pity both; for ''Biddy" may be imposed 
upon and leave on short notice. And it is good for 
their future welfare that "Biddy" does such things 
at times ; it causes them to step down a round or two, 
from the ladder of pride, and it impresses more firmly 
on the heart the value and appreciation of '^Biddy's" 
service. 

Therefore, young lady, see that your beau has a 
knowledge of the Christ idea, and has read and stud- 
ied the New Testament from Matthew to Revelation, 
also that he is living up to it; but forget not that ye 
do likewise. Then marriage will not be one-tenth the 
lottery that people think it is, or that it seems to be 
now. 

If you or he should happen to get proud or "stuck 
up" over reading it. remember you are imbibing the 
"stumbling-stone" spirit. Stop! you are on the wrong 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 97 

road! Turn back and begin again, and look closely 
for the ''meek and lowly'' road. 

EVERY MAN 

that is born of the Spirit will be just as happy and 
comfortable in his jeans and jackets as in his broad- 
cloth or worsteds. You will be as happy in the work- 
shop as at the horse-race. 

You will be a great deal happier at home with your 
wife or family in the evenings, than at some supposed 
lodge, which happens to be, at times, either at a gam- 
bling-den, or to lounge about at the saloon waiting on 
some one for free drinks, or at the house of Babylon- 
getting, unexpectedly, a ^'hot drink." 

If born of the Spirit, you will know that all money 
made by gambling, in its broadest sense, can not stay 
with you, or do you any good; but it shall go at one 
time or another, before you close your eyes; and for 
some poor fellows, it even caused them to close their 
eyes in the same corrupt way and time that it was 
gained. 

You will be just as happy to be the ''cub" as the 
overseer. 

You will be just as happy to be paddy or laborer, 
and with a great deal more honor, than to be a 
"slave" driver. 

You will not say, *'Get to work! ye sons—" using 
all damning expressions; but you will remember then 
that they are your brothers, having souls, hearts and 
feeling just the same as you have for yourself. Treat 
them as brothers, and you will get twice the amount 



98 ''Te Shall Know the Trutn, and 

of work out of them; that is, you will not have one- 
fourth the worry to get them to do the same amount 
of work. 

^^It is not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit 
[of love J, saith the Lord." 

They will work just the same whether you stand 
over them with a long lash-whip,, or tongue; or 
w^hether you have taken your bone and crawled under 
some remote rock or corner of the table to lie down 
and gnaw at it for a season. 

You will be a great deal happier, and in a far more 
comfortable position, to embrace your o^m wife, than 
the wife of some other man. 

If you are born of the Spirit, the love for your own 
wife will grow sweeter each year from the day of 
your marriage, instead of the reverse; providing she 
also is born of the Spirit : which does away with what 
is called ''passion love," or ''calves' love," and all 
manner of corruption. 

Neither will you be too lazy to provide for your 
wife and family; neither will you be ashamed to go 
and dig ditch, if there is no other honest way for you 
to make a living. 

Why do w^e see so many w^ho have stood so high 
above us and have fallen way down ; such as would 
not even see or take time to look at what they have 
knocked down or trampled upon, even if it should 
happen to be "little" you or little me? 

Jesus answers this' question, and all questions: 
"Whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be abashed: an^;^ 
he that shall humble himself, shall be exalted." I' 
other words: "He that enter eth not by the door into 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 99 

the sheepf old, but climbeth up some other way, the 
same is a thief and a robber/' 

Pride is like a torpedo; when both are cast down, 
they explode. 

Well! well! kind husband, what seems to be the 
matter? Are you afraid to enter into your own 
house? Has your pet turned out to be a fierce, howl- 
ing lion? Does your pet not give you any more con- 
tentment and peace? Oh, speak up, brother, what is 
the matter? 

**I— I— I enjoy a drink of wine once in awhile, yet 
I do not like to go to the saloon every time I want a 
drink, especially when the drug store is much nearer; 
and because I meet so many of my brother workmen 
at the saloon, and they all want me to take a sup 
with them, and you know I can not do that without 
getting too much. Neither do I want to refuse some 
and not others, for this makes bad feelings. So to-day 
I thought of a better plan; I bought a bottle and 
brought it home into the house, and then I could take 
my sup and put the rest away; and thereby rid my- 
self of taking too much and making enemies/' 

Well ! but what is wrong now ? 

^'When we were single, I never told ^ Dinah' that 
I loved my drink once in awhile." 

Why didn't you? You should have told her every- 
thing that you intended to do, and all about your 
customs and habits. Tou should have built upon the 
true Rock and not on rock-powder in these important 
things. You should have told her the whole truth, 
hiding nothing ; and then you would now be free from 



100 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

all explosions. And if she did not love you the more 
for telling her the truth, she was not worthy of you. 

**Yes, but she used to talk so much about temper- 
ance and total abstinence; and I loved her too much 
to tell her that I sometimes took a drink. ' ' 

No, you did not love her half enough, or you would 
have told her the truth! Remember Paul says, *' Per- 
fect love casteth out all fear. ' ' So your love could not 
have been perfect! 

''Well, see, this is how she would work things. She 
told me a parable like this: Once two men went out 
to a certain place one night; one drank ten glasses 
and he got drunk; the other man only drank on^ 
glass—" 

''Wait, before you go any further! Why did you 
not tell her,, 'That's me!' and then you would have 
broken the ice: and if she would not listen to what 
you say, you should have told her to whisper such 
things into another's ears!" 

"I was going to say something, but she cornered 
me." 

"How did she corner you?" 

' ' She told me that the man that drank one glass 
was one-tenth drunk.'* 

"Why didn't you tell her that was the very same 
thing that the blind guides accused Christ Jesus of? 
Yea, and many of his true followers?" 

"Because I never read any (or but few) of Christ's 
laws; and did not know how handy they come in 
sometimes." 

"Well, tell her to beware: for she knows not where 
the trouble lies, nor what she is saying, or how she is 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 101 

liable to damn her own soul ! She is not only making 
out that Jesus Christ and his apostles were one-tenth 
drunk, but she is liable to commit that unpardonable 
sin— speaking a word against the Holy Ghost; be- 
cause, by so doing, she is trying to make out that you 
and Jesus are of an unclean spirit. Simply because 
our dear Lord, at times, humiliated himself so low as 
to wash feet, eat dinner with '4ow-classed sinners" 
and that with unwashen hands; and would occasion- 
ally take a drink ! ! Oh, search the Scriptures, and 
know the truth!!" 

Yea, how many get drunk in the sight of God, 
and know it not ! Yea, how many get drunk by eating 
too much ice-cream, or pie, oysters, candy and turkey, 
or by indulgence in idleness, adultery, and a host of 
other things from which they will not recover as soon, 
and with worse effects than he who should happen to 
get his drunkenness by liquor. Yet all the others are 
overlooked by the blind guides, even if they are laid 
up for a week or a month; but let me tell you that 
these are not overlooked in the sight of the Lord. 

*'Be ye temperate in all things.," is the scales upon 
which we may be weighed; and the tipping of this 
scale would certainly be surprising if certain ones 
were weighed. 

Therefore, kind, yet blind, husband, take your bas- 
ket full of groceries and that bottle of wine which you 
also have in your basket, and go into your own house, 
or lions' den, or powder-house, and place your bottle in 
the cupboard and act the coward or hypocrite no 
longer. Place not the bottle on the shelf when 
''Dinah" has her back turned, or when she is out or 



102 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

upstairs; but do it in her presence. If she wants to 
make a rush for the bottle, tell her not to be in a 
hurry, there will be some left for her. If she makes 
an attempt to throw the bottle out, ask her to show 
you in black and white, out of the ^ latest laws" that 
are handed down to us by Jesus Christ and the apos- 
tles, where she finds her authority to do so. 

Do not strike her, no, not even with thy little finger, 
no matter what she does to you ! For remember this 
period of life is where some of the rock-powder 
touches fire, or what can be truly called the ^'clean- 
ing up of the threshing-floor,'' or the trial end of this 
life's harvest of corrupt reaping; and there naturally 
arises a lot of dust and smoke with it. But when this 
is over, the good grain is turned into flour, and from 
flour to bread, and from bread to life ; and the whole 
world seems a new place and every one happy. 

This separation of the seeds, or the discrimination 
of the real foundation, should be done during the 
period of courtship; and all this unnecessary trouble 
would not need to be undergone now. 

But how is courtship carried on to-day? Many feed 
each other on lies ; and after they wake up to the reali- 
ties of life, they find out that they do not know each 
other at all. Some see and feel that they are so far 
from home (the mark) that they want a divorce. This 
thing of lying is the worst drunkenness there is; and 
its ** whisky" is certainly rotten! 

This is why some get along so well and others do 
not ; and it is all on account of knowing and not know- 
ing each other and the Lord before marriage. 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 103 

''Therefore, be not deceived; God is not mocked: 
for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap/' 

''Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make 
you free/' 

Therefore, ye husbands, take your little "bunnies'' 
or bottles from their hiding-places; take them from 
out the grape-arbor, from out the buggy shed, from 
out the hole in the stone wall, from out the coal-house, 
from out the gas-meter cover, from out behind the 
back door, from out beneath thy porch or thy neigh- 
bor's porch, from out thy neighbor's cellar, and put 
them in thine own cellar or on thine own shelf. 

Oh, realize and know that the Lord our God know- 
eth and seeth all things, and why should you try to 
hide it from little brother man? 

Oh, be a man! Be no longer a hypocrite or a 
"snake in the grass," but be Christ's man! If you 
are ashamed of your bottle, then it is a sin for you to 
use it. Give it up ! 

^ Fear not what man says of you; that Is not what 
hurts you : it is what you do yourself. But reverence 
the Son of man, who has not only charge of the body, 
but of the soul as well. 

How much more pleasant it seems to go with the 
crowd or the supposed majority: but remember the 
Lord and one are a majority. 

YOUNG MEN. 

What more need I say? I have given you informa- 
tion and direction that will bring you peace and hap- 
piness immeasurable, if you will only live the truth, 
love the truth, know the truth and do the truth. 



104 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

Trust the kingdom of God that is within you. How 
can you expect your talent to gain another talent, if 
you keep it wrapped up in a napkin all your life? 

'Tis no disgrace to run 

And meet the Lord, I see; 
'Twas Peter who first begun 

To step out on the sea. 

Though deeply you should sink 

Beneath the waves of sin, 
Forget not hope, and think — 

The Hand's not near you then. 

He who never, never climbs. 

Has no need or fear to fall; 
But when the trumpet chimes, 

Has greater fear than all. 

Let the powers of this kingdom come forth ! Learn 
to have faith in it and rely upon it; but be careful 
that the ^^ puffy and fleshy" mind does not jump in 
ahead and blockade the way. 

Learn to walk by faith, and not so much by sight; 
and then you also can be able, always, to see the Son 
in and back of all the clouds and dreary weather. 

Be not like the ''blind guides" of which Jesus 
spake, who have no faith in the kingdom that is with- 
in them; and who do not like to see you having faith 
in your God-given powers. 

Oh, why did Jesus ask this question, ^'When the 
Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"? 

Yes, there are a few names even in Sardis, and a 
few here and a few there, which have not defiled their 
garments : and they shall walk with the Lord in white, 
for they are worthy. 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 105 

Oh, throw off this adulterous garment of the heart, 
and be clothed with the wedding garment; for the 
bridegroom may come to-morrow! 

When the Son of man was on earth, he said to the 
people, *^0 ye of little faith!'' What will he say when 
he Cometh the second time? Will he say, ^^0 ye of 
great faith ! " or, ^ * ye of infinitesimal faith ! " ? 

Fi'om all appearances, it is the latter; for many 
have not even faith in what they eat or drink, trust 
not even the kingdom within; how can you expect 
them to trust and have faith in God? Such say, **I 
can not eat this or that ; and if I drink only a glass 
of water before going to bed, I can not sleep. It 
lies too heavy on my stomach. I dare not drink any 
buttermilk, for fear of the acid affecting my intes- 
tines. I dare not eat any onions for fear of the alco- 
hol that may be in them, which may not agree with 
me, or might make me drunk." 

In plain words, know^ ye not that Jesus came to re- 
veal to us that the Christ in Jesus and the Christ in us 
is the same; only in this degree— ^ 'I am the Vine, ye 
are the branches." 

Young man, if you are born of the Spirit, you will 
no longer crow over the fact that you never tasted 
any drink; but when you are asked, ^^Did you ever 
take a drink of adultery?" say, *'0h, yes, lots of 
times!" Let me tell you, you are a thousand times 
worse off in the sight of God than the man who will 
openly take his drink at the bar, and then go attend 
to his own business and will not commit adultery. 
Yet the adulterous man is everything in the sight 



106 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

of the blind guides, and Christ's man is looked upon 
and counted as nothing! 

This conversation or incident happened only two 
days before it was related to me; and it happened 
with just such young men as I have described. 

Before we do any crowing, let us first examine our- 
selves to see if we have anything to crow about ; and 
then he that is without sin, let him cast the first 
stone. 

Young man, think not, because you have good and 
respectable parents, that you can walk through this 
life on their reputation ! You must build a reputation 
for yourself. Think not, because your parents hold 
high places in this world, that you can do just what 
you please and it will all be overlooked! 

Think not that you can pull the veil over the eyes 
of the public, by saying you have the '^walking ty- 
phoid fever,'' when in reality you are stumbling 
around drunk with adultery. Say not that you must 
go to the far East or to the far West to keep your 
hair from falling out all over the head and face, and 
call it '* consumption''! 

Call not upon a pure, innocent young lady to be 
your happy wife, to have her afterward find out, to 
her sorrow, agony and horrid surprise, that her en- 
tire system has become polluted and diseased by your 
leprous blood. 

Such hypocrisy, such lasciviousness, such corrupt 
' ' whisky, ' ' shall no longer reign supreme ! The whole 
medical profession is becoming so disgusted with the 
curing of such cases, in which avoidable, sin-cursed 
disease is brought upon the innocent offspring as well 



The Truth Shall Make Yon Freer 107 

as the parents themselves, that in the near future 
there will be a law passed that will demand purity 
of body before marriage is granted! 

Young man, trust not in riches; for riches have 
wrings, and are liable to fly away any minute. Have 
that fortune within you, that, if you lose one, you 
can go and build another. 

In conclusion, will say that in this chapter you 
will find the solution for many a perplexing prob- 
lem; but there are some more solutions to follow, 
which are left for discussion in the next chapter. 

Allow the following beautiful words to be engraved 
upon your heart and mind: *'Be ye temperate in 
all things.'' 

^'Ye must be born again." 



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CHAPTER VI. 

CHRISTIANITY AND CREEDS. 

What is Christianity? Webster says, ''Christian- 
ity is the religion taught by Jesus Christ/' Chris- 
tianity is the truth, faith, hope and love taught and 
lived by Jesus Christ, and all his true followers. 

True Christianity is that homelike spirit or feeling, 
that feeling of peace and love, which almost every 
heart is longing and craving after: but many look in 
the opposite direction for it. 

Christianity is activity, and not slothful laziness. 
Christianity is simplicity, and not formality. Chris* 
tianity is the fulfilling of the law of love out of a 
pure heart. 

''Though I speak with the tongues of men and of 
angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding 
brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 

''And though I have the gift of prophecy, and un- 
derstand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and 
though I have all faith, so that I could remove moun- 
tains, and have not love, I am nothing. 

"And though I bestow all my goods to feed the 
poor [for show], and though I give my body to be 
burned [wearing myself out by blowing my trumpet], 
and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. '^ 

I shall make some startling statements of truth in 
this chapter, therefore do not misunderstand as to 
what I say, neither get things twisted, nor make "three 
black crow'' stories out of them. And if you wish to 



The Truth Shall Make You Free." 109 

speak them to others, and are not able to state them 
so they will convey the correct meaning to others, 
please read them. 

If we always prejudice ourselves, or harden our 
hearts to the truth, no one can help us or do anything 
for us. Such are making advancement only in one 
way— climbing upon a larger boulder of rock-powder. 
Whosoever is in such a condition is the most helpless,, 
the most hopeless and the most miserable person liv- 
ing. 

Simply to be a member of any church, a United or 
plain Presbyterian, a Methodist or a Lutheran, a 
Baptist or a Roman Catholic, or any other creed or 
sect— to be simply a member thereof is, to me, as 
nothing; but to be a true follower of the Lord Jesus 
Christ, and born of the Spirit, this, to me, is every- 
thing! 

If any of you do not understand w^hat I wish to 
make plain in the above statement, let me beg of you 
not to think that I am speaking a word against the 
churches. Oh, no, I would rather, yea, a thousand 
times rather, say, God bless all the churches, any- 
where and everywhere. 

It is to the roots of the commandments and doc- 
trines of men that Jesus wishes the ax of truth to 
be applied, and not against the Holy Spirit and his 
Bride. 

All I am after is the truth, and will point out to 
you some of the rock-powder. I shall speak the truth 
as it has been revealed to me. I can do no more, no 
less; and the truth or spirit in this chapter is this— 
to illustrate, will say. Let two brethren be standing 



110 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

on some spot; one is what you call a Roman Catholic 
and the other you call a Protestant. I can walk up 
to these, my brothers,, and throw my arms about their 
necks and freely say, God bless you both; and then, 
turning to the one and then to the other, greeting 
them with a hearty handshake or, if need be, a holy 
kiss. (Not a Judas Iscariot kiss!) 

This, dear reader, is my understanding of the 
Spirit in this part of life's duty, or to be born of the 
same mind that was also in Christ Jesus. 

Any Protestant minister who will preach from his 
pulpit, speaking words of condemnation against his 
brother who is a Roman Catholic, simply because he 
is of this belief, knoweth not what he saith. Like- 
wise any Roman minister who will speak in like 
manner of his Protestant brother, doeth likewise, and 
both, in this one thing, know not the will of the 
Father and Son, but are a hindrance to Christ's cause 
in this direction; and such ignorant expressions, God 
only winks at. 

He who is a minister of any denomination, and 
will proclaim from his pulpit with loud-mouthed 
exclamations that his creed is the only church, and 
that all the others are merely trash, knoweth not the 
Father, neither the Son, but is yet in his sins. He 
is a liar, and the truth is not in him. His heart is., 
as it were, closed up in an oyster shell, then wrapped 
up in a ^'selfish" napkin and gently and gracefully 
entwined with the vail of darkness; and he is yet in 
his black sins! 

No wonder Jesus said, **I am the good shepherd: 
the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 111 

^'And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee 
from him: for they know not the voice of strangers." 

brother, guard well thy tongue! Repent and re- 
ceive the Holy Ghost. If you absolutely will not, 
then to you I say, Take your bone and crawl under 
the stove or table ! You are a disgrace to stand be- 
hind that holy and sacred desk, and proclaim such 
blasphemies ! 

Did Jesus come to bring all manner of creedisms 
and ^'asms" and *^ spasms" into this world? What 
shall I say? Shall I say that this is true and shall 
forever continue, and thereby make out that the Com- 
forter has lied to me? God forbid. Unity of faith 
is the New Covenant cry! And primitive disciple- 
ship is the fulfillment thereof. 

Would not Paul have an awful time to make his 
epistles suit and fit into every church and creed of 
to-day? His Christ-doctrine which he handed to one 
church, had in it the same essence as that which he 
handed to all churches. 

Paul, in all his letters, is putting forth the same 
essence, over and over again. His whole aim is to 
impress the thought that every one must strive to 
be of the same mincj that was also in Christ Jesus. 
Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way, 
we are not to infer that we should be narrow-minded. 
He who is narrow-minded, "or he who expects to stay 
narrow-minded all his life, is in a doubtful position, 
of whom there is great doubt as to whether he will 
ever see or enter the strait gate and narrow way ! 

To be of the same mind that was also in Christ 



112 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

Jesus, is the greatest, the broadest, and the only sub- 
lime mind there is. 

If the apostle Paul were to visit the churches, what 
would he do and what would he say of his Corin- 
thians, his Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, Romans 
and Thessalonians of to-day? 

I shall illustrate as the truth has been revealed to 
me; illustrate the truth or Christ-idea to draw all 
creeds and sects nearer together, to become more and' 
more of one mind, that we may reap the golden grain 
of the seed which the angels sowed when they sang, 
''Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, good 
will to men." 

But before this can be brought about in a fuller 
measure, there naturally must first take place the ex- 
plosion of our rock-powdered beliefs. 

Supposing Paul would step into one of his churches, 
for whom he has written these letters as well as for 
the people of long ago. He naturally would preach 
the gospel in the same plain way. He also would 
have a '^ song-book" with him that he could use in 
every church he visited. I shall merely name this 
^' song-book" at present, but will speak of it later on. 

Paul opens his '^ Trinity" song-book and announces 
to the congregation of the church in which he now 
is, saying, ''Let us praise God by singing No. 177." 
And, probably to awaken the people, he begins to 
sing, 

** Jesus, lover of my soul — " 

The elders of the church make a rush at him, say- 
ing, "Hold on, Saint Paul! you know not w^here 
you're at! Don't you know you are in the wrong 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 113 

church? Don't you know we are strict United Pres- 
byterians? Don't you know our church doctrines 
forbid us to sing such songs here in this holy place, 
or in any other place? We can not sing those words, 
even though we do use the same tune in our Psalter I 
We simply can not sing that song, and if we did, we 
would all be liable to go to rock-powder!!" 

Paul answers them by asking them to sing No. 897 
in '^Trinity,'" or No. 3 in their Psalter. He reads a 
portion to mako sure of the right number this timo: 

" 'Why r^e the heathens? and vain things 
Why do the people mind? 
The kings of earth do set themselves, 
And princes are combined 

" *To plot against the Lord and his 

Anointed, saying thus, ' 

L^t us asunder break their bands, 
And cast their cords from us.* 

''Sing*, brethren! sing! sing with the heart and 
iindersttanding, as well as with the lips!" 

After the singing of these lines, Paul wishes to 
lead in prayer. As he is about to kneel, he beckons 
to the congregation to do likewise; but the elders 
and preacher are on deck, saying, ''Saint Paul, this 
is out of order altogether! We are stiff, straight, 
stand-up U. P. 's I Times have changed since you were 
here!" 

Paul answers: "Times have changed wonderfully; 
but the Lord hasn't. Come, you should kneel with 
me once at least during your services, that you may 
become more meek and lowly in heart." 



114 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

'^We kneel at home in our family worship when 
we are in our every-day attire, but we can not in 
these fleecy garbs!" 

^'Very well/' said Paul. ^*Let us sing again in 
No. 93, or 255 in your Psalter: 

" *How often in the wilderness 
Did they provoke his wrath, 
How often grieve him, as they marched 
Along their desert path! 

"Tea, turning back, they tempt the Lord, 
And boldly limits place 
About the High and Holy One — 
The God of Isr'ePs race.' 

*'Sing, brethren! sing! sing with the heart and 
tuneful voice ! Sing with the understanding, and 
rejoice! Sing, for ye are faithful in one thing— up- 
holding the portion of David." 

After the singing of these lines, Paul hands the 
pastor a notice to be announced to his congregation. 
Having yet many churches to visit, he kindly steps 
out. 

After traveling a short distance, Paul steps into 
another church, and would begin the services with 
prayer. As he is about to do so, as in the first church, 
the deacons come to him and say: ^'This is out of 
order with our church doctrines! We are simply 
plain Presbyterians! no more, no less! We were going 
to include this meek and lowly method of prayer 
in our code of rules: but many of our fashionable 
ladies and gentlemen said, *It spoils the clothes and 
presses them all out of shape'!" 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 115 

*'Very well/' said Paul; ^*let us continue by sing- 
ing a part of the fifty-first Psalm, No. 25 in * Trinity' 
or 177 in the Psalter.'' 

^*We do not have those songs in our books, neither 
do we know the tune ; but if we had the tune and the 
words, we would gladly and boldly set ourselves to 
sing them for you!" 

Paul answered: *' Behold, we shall find a way or 
make one, so that all can join in this song! Ye all 
know the tune ^Rock of Ages,' and I shall write the 
words in large letters on this blackboard chart: 

" *Lord, to me compassion show, 
As thy tender mercies flow; 
In thy vast and boundless grace. 
My transgressions all erase; 
Wash me wholly from my sins, 
Cleanse me from my guilty stains. 

" *Lo! conceived was I in sin, 
Born unholy and unclean; 
Yet thou dost desire to find 
Truth sincere within the mind, 
And thou wilt within my heart 
Wisdom unto me impart.' 

'^Sing, brethren! sing! sing with the spirit and 
understanding as well as with the lips." 

After singing these beautiful lines, Paul says, 
^'Sing again in No. 12 in ^Trinity,' or 583 ^Gospel 
Hymns.' " 

''What kind of a song-book have you, Saint Paul?" 

''Since ye have not hardened your hearts or stopped 
your ears to my words, ye shall know after the sing- 
ing of this number: 



116 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

" *What a friend we have in Jesus, 
All our sins and griefs to bear; 
What a privilege to carry 
Everything to God in prayer. 

" *0h, what peace we often forfeit, 
Oh, what needless pain we bear — 
All because we do not carry 
Everything to God in prayer.' 

**Sing, brethren! sing! sing v^ith joy and gladness! 
Sing, making sweet melody in your hearts to the 
Lord.'' 

After singing these lines, Paul told them a few 
things about his song-book, but said, ^^Come out into 
the green field east of the city on Thursday evening 
at six o'clock, where all shall gather together, and I 
shall speak vrith great plainness of speech, that all 
may understand." 

Paul steps out of this church, and, crossing the 
street, goes into another. 

* He greets the pastor with these words: **Well, Bro. 
Martin, where did you find that gown? That looks 
like the very one I jerked off an old pagan priest on 
Mars Hill before I fell into the hands of the living 
God!. What makes you wear that now? Who told 
you to wear such unnecessary things? Put it off! 
take it off!" 

'*We are Lutherans! This gown seems as if it is 
filled with the Spirit, and helps me to put forth a 
powerful sermon!" 

' ' Oh, nonsense ! Did David go to meet the great 
w^arrior and giant, Goliath, in the strength of Saul's 
armor suit? Did he not forsake this armor, put on 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 117 

his humble shepherd clothes, go out in the strength 
of the Lord with weapons of simplicity, and conquer 
his enemy?" 

Martin replied, *^ Truly, that is what he did, and 
that is why I put on my shepherd clothes!" 

'^ Martin, I perceive you do not fully understand. 
Hearken! Had David's sheep been in the same field 
where he conquered the enemy, would the sheep have 
known David only by his voice, or by both his voice 
and natural clothes?" 

^^Oh, I see!" said Martin, and began to unfasten 
his * ^ Saul-armor. " 

^*Was David the shepherd of his flock only one 
day in the week, or seven days? Likewise, are you 
the shepherd of this flock only one day and only one 
hour of that day, or seven days of the week and full 
time?" 

*^ Seven!" was the reply, and the rock-powdered 
gown dropped and exploded. 

^^Doth not thine own little lambs shy at this 
stranger,' which maketh thee to seem such; and when 
they hear thy voice, look they not around in every 
direction to see where thou art, even if thou art stand- 
ing still, in front or in the midst of them ? A stranger 
will they not follow! Doth not nature teach us so? 

^ ' Whose sacred desk is that over there with the holy 
Book open and laid upon it? Have you an assistant 
who occupies that place?" 

*'I, Martin, occupy both! In this I give the intro- 
ductory services, and in the other I preach the 
Word." 



118 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

**What nonsense! Know ye not that a house di- 
vided against itself can not stand? Likewise, a pul- 
pit desk divided against itself can not stand. Go, 
move these halves together and preach from behind 
one sacred desk ; and the gates of hell shall not pre- 
vail against it (public opinion) ! Why is it that you 
have this sacred desk divided and why did you wear 
that gownT' 

**Well, I will tell you. Brother Grutzmun, the 
Roman, and I many years ago labored together. But 
we could not agree on many things, so we each went 
for ourselves, even as thou and Barnabas did, on ac- 
count of taking with you Brother Mark. Yet in real- 
ity it was the will of God behind all these doings to 
spread the gospel more and more, or, as we say to- 
day, ^Opposition is the life of trade.' 

^^It is, therefore, because Brother Grutzmun wore 
a gown and had his desk divided, that I, being a co- 
worker with him, did likewise, and have not shaken 
off these things, even unto this day." 

**God bless you, Martin, for this explanation of 
the truth. And for this I shall open thine under- 
standing yet fuller. 

**You have read where Simeon hath declared how 
God at first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them 
a people for his name. And to this agree the words 
of the prophet; as it is written, 

** * After this I will return, and will build again the 
tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I 
will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it 
up: 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 119 

** 'That the residue of men [the Jews and hea- 
then] might seek after the Lord,, and all the Gentiles, 
upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who 
doeth all these things. 

'' ^ Known unto God are all his works, from the 
beginning of the world.' 

'* Martin, behold, the time is drawing nigh when 
the Jew shall dwell with the Gentile, and the Roman 
shall lie down with the Protestant ; and all shall dwell 
together in one faith; and the holy child Jesus shall 
lead them. 

''Come, now, let us sing a part of the 100th Psalm, 
No. 1 in 'Trinity,' and No. 1 in your book; if not, it 
should be. Tune, 'Old Hundred': 

" *An people that on earth do dwell, 

Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. 
Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell. 
Come ye before him and rejoice. 

"*Know that the Lord is God indeed; 
Without our aid he did us make: 
We are his flock, he doth us feed, 
And for his sheep he doth us take.' 

"Sing, brethren! sing! Sing with the heart and 
cheerful voice ! Sing with the understanding, and 
rejoice ! 

"Well, Brother Martin, I have no longer to stay; 
but, before I depart, come let us all kneel and repeat 
the Lord's Prayer, or His prayer for us.'' 

This did Martin and his flock as they had done in 
the past. Paul bids farewell and steps out. 

Paul makes quite a long journey before he enters 
another church. He is somewhat surprised, and ex- 



120 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

claims, ''Never was it so seen, no, not in Israel! Be- 
hold, in this place they have moved -the whole family 
to the pulpit!" 

Paul is asked to take the man's place, but can not 
understand what the woman is going to do with the 
book she has on her desk. 

He begins reading his first letter to the Corinthi- 
ans, which he had written to the Corinthians of long 
ago. He began to read the latter half of the four- 
teenth chapter, and as he was reading a few mo- 
ments, he was suddenly interrupted by the woman: 
**Hold on, Mr. Saint Paul! Know you not that thou 
art in a Christian Science church, and I am the Pas- 
tor Emeritus here ? It is now my time to read awhile 
out of this text-book, and then comes your time 
again!" 

Paul groaned in the spirit and answered, *^As I 
have many churches to visit before I depart, come, 
let us kneel and pray!" 

''We are Christian Scientists! We worship the 
Father in spirit and not down on the floor!" 

Paul said: "Go, I pray thee, to thy brother Martin 
at your earliest convenience, and converse with him. 
Well, come then, and let us sing No. 98 in Trinity 
song-book, or 150 in your Hymnal." 

"What kind of a song-book did you say you have? 
I thought we had the latest book out!" said the 
Emeritus. 

"Ye shall know next Thursday evening!" 

Paul is not a whit behind any of the apostles, or 
"Pastor Emerituses," and is ready to meet all things 
on all occasions. He first reads the words of this 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 121 

number to draw out the love-cord that shall bind all 
together : 

" 'Now is the time approaching, 
By prophets long foretold, 
When all shall dwell together. 
One shepherd and one fold. 

"'Let all that now divides us 
Remove and pass away. 
Like shadows of the morning 
Before the blaze of day." 

*'Sing, brethren! sing! Sing with the heart and un- 
derstanding! Sing with the spirit, and let all that 
now divides us, remove and pass away! 

'^Before I depart, sing again a part of the thirty- 
seventh Psalm, No. 5 in 'Trinity' or 123 in the Psalter, 
and the same tune as No. 61 in your Hymnal." 

Paul is answered by the Pastor Emeritus: ^^We 
don't sing Psalms any more! They are out of date 
with us, lack much of the instructive spirit, and are 
not as pretty as those handed down to us by our 
Virgin Mary Baker G. Eddy. We must abide strictly 
to her commandments and doctrines" (of men). 

Paul answered: '* Whosoever is ashamed of the fol- 
lowing lines, of him also will the Son of man be 
ashamed. Also, if these words are not pretty and 
instructive, nothing is! 

"*For evil-doers fret thou not 
Thyself unquietly; 
Nor do thoii envy bear to those 
That work iniquity. 

[Let the wheat and the tares grow up together 
until the harvest— -the end of the world.] 



122 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

** 'Delight thyself in God; he'll give 
Thy heart's desire to thee. 
Thy way to God commit, Him trust ; 
It bring to pass shall he.* 

*'Sin^, brethren! Sing with new joy and gladness! 

**Sing once more the songs of old! 
Sing ALL songs of which we are told! 

''Sing, for ye are 'Peters,' stepping out upon the wa- 
ters to meet your Lord; but be careful that your 
women go not too far out and perish in the waves 
of God's will. 

"Sing again in No. 35 in ^Trinity,' or No. 12 in 
Christian Science Hymnal: 

" *Lord, may thy truth upon the heart 
Now fall and dwell as heav'nly dew. 
And flowers of grace in freshness start 
Where once the weeds of error grew ! 
" *May pray'r now lift her sacred wings, 
Contented with that aim alone 
Which hears her to the King of kings, 
And rests her at His sheltering throne/ " 

After the singing of these lines, Paul gave them the 
same notice as he did all others, and stepped out. 

He walks down the street, and crosses over and 
enters another church. He greets the pastor with 
these words: ''Well, Brother John the Baptist, how 
are you? I am glad to see that some of you still bap- 
tize in the same manner in which John of old bap- 
tized. But, remember this, Brother John, it does not 
matter so much as to the method of this water-birth, 
but eternity depends upon how you shall speak, con- 
duet, explain and lead them to the Water of Life! 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 123 

*^ Brother John, even these things are not enough. 
For you know that nature teaches us that we can lead 
a horse to water, but can not make him drink. But 
you can hitch him up, and warm and cheer him up, 
so that when you lead him to the water, he will 
gladly and willingly drink; or you can let him stand 
until he is ready to drink. 

^^ Likewise, Brother John, you must first be filled 
with the Water of Life, so you can make it so warm 
and cheerful and interesting for thy flock that they 
will pull on the string that thou leadest them with, 
trying to get to the Fountain ahead of thee. And if 
thou becomest a 'castaway' unto thy flock, rejoice, 
and go seek another where they have not yet learned 
to pull on the string. 

''I have not long to stay, but before I depart, 
please sing No. 2 in 'Trinity,' or No. 127 in 'Gospel 
Hymns,' second and third stanzas: 

" *Ye children of men attend to the word 
So solemnly uttered by Jesus the Lord, 
And let not this message to you be in vain, 
^'Ye must he born again, again." 

"*0h, ye that would enter that glorious rest, 
And sing with the ransom'd the song of the blest; 
The life everlasting, if you would obtain, 
**Ye must be bom again, again."* 

**Sing, brethren! sing! sing that climax song! 
Sing, oh, sing, I can not be with you long! 
Sing, oh, sing, and let the Spirit join in! 
Oh, sing this song over and over again." 

After the singing. Paul said: "Brother John, please 
converse and receive and give instruction to thy 



124 ''Ye SJiall Know tie Truth, and 

neighbor brothers. Announce this notice and fare 
ye well." 

Paul travels a short distance, and comes to a place 
where he hears them singing, **Lead, Kindly Light." 
He steps in and takes his place, and asks Brother 
Jones to lead in prayer. This is done in the manner 
which Paul loved. 

Next, he wishes to continue the services by singing 
No. 7 in '^Trinity" or No. 11 in the Psalter. 

**St. Paul, we are Methodists! and are not familiar 
with these words or tune, although we have some of 
the Psalms in our book.^^ 

''Can you people sing * Jesus, Lover of — '*' 

''Oh, yes!" 

"Well, it is the same tune. I will write the words 
on this chart and place it where all can see: 

" *0 Jehovah, hear my words, 
And my meditation weigh; 
Hear my cry, my King, my God, 
For to thee, O Lord, I pray. 

"'Lead me in thy righteousness. 
Evermore my steps maintain; 
And because of watchful foes, 
Make thy way before me plain.* *' 

"Sing, brethren; sing! Sing with a newness of 
understanding! Sing with the heart, and rejoice.'' 

After the singing of this number, Brother Jones in- 
vited Paul to occupy the pulpit for to-day, but he 
answered and said: "I thank you very much for your 
kindness and this gracious invitation. I had to re- 
fuse all others, and must do likewise with you. 



The Truth Shall Make Yon Free." 125 

**You shall hear me address an audience of which 
this shall be only a small part. Take this notice, and 
announce to your people and to every one you meet. 
And before I depart, sing again in No. 999 in 'Trin- 
ity,' or 662 in 'Gospel Hymns'— 'What Shall the Har- 
vest Be?' 

" 'Sowing the seed by the daylight fair, 
Sowing the seed by the noonday glare; 
Sowing the seed by the fading light, 
Sowing the seed in the solemn night: 
Oh, what shall the harvest be? 

** 'Sowing the seed with an aching heart, 
Sowing the seed while the teardrops start; 
Sowing in hope till the reapers come, 
Gladly to gather the harvest home: 
Oh, what shall the harvest be?' 

"Sing, brethren! sing out and have no fear! 
Oh, sing with the heart and a weeping tear; 
Oh, sing for joy while sowing your seeds — 
Righteousness and love is what the world needs.' " 

After the singing of this number, Paul visits one 
more church. Not that the others are not worth vis- 
iting; no, but the time is far spent. 

He walks up the avenue and enters a large edifice. 
He stayed longer with the Methodists than he in- 
tended, therefore reaches this place shortly after the 
services had begun. 

Paul, for some reason, sits down in the first vacant 
pew to which he comes. He sees many things that 
cause an uneasiness. He sees the images of Peter, of 
Jesus, yea, and of himself, and this causes him to 
weep. I can not tell the causes ; but probably recol- 



126 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

lections of old-time incidents are brought afresh to 
his soul. He keeps his seat while this (what is prob- 
ably called ^^High mass") is going on. He sees many- 
strange things and performances, and can not see 
w^hat they have to do with the soul. 

'^I must be in the wrong building! How can these 
things feed the soul? Why does this man face the 
audience mostly with his back during these exercises? 
He surely can not say that Jesus, or Peter, or John, or 
James, or Matthew, or Mark, or Brother Luke, or I 
myself, did these things, or told him to do so. I must 
be at the wrong place ! 

''Why does he go hither and thither, and stop at 
the front of the little office window, and peep through 
it? Oh, I must be at the wrong place! This must be 
w^hat they call the Observatory of to-day ! This 
must be a weather prophet! He peeps into the tele- 
scope instead of windows! Why is he so restless? 
There must be an eclipse or a great storm coming on. 
He must be predicting and forecasting the weather 
for to-morrow or this afternoon. Well, if this is a 
weather prophet, I am in the wrong place; but a 
■weather man surely would not wear an apron on his 
back with a large, beautiful cross upon it. He cer- 
tainly has found an easier way and a lighter cross to 
bear than ever Silas or I had ! I wonder why he has 
that lamp burning in broad daylight? 

^^No wonder Brother Martin said he and Brother 
Grutzmun could not agree. I wish Brother Peter was 
here ! What is the use of his little, faithful servants 
carrying back and forth the Holy Bible?" 



The Truth Shall Make You Free.'' 127 

By this time the minister beckons for them to kneel 
in prayer. Paul is delighted with this; but when he 
hears the unknown tongue, and only a word or two in 
English, his happiness takes wings and flies away. 

These exercises are now over, and Paul is glad of 
it. The minister begins with his sermon, and takes 
for his text Paul's letter to the Romans, thirteenth 
chapter, nineteenth verse : 

^^ Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves; but rather 
give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance 
is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.'' 

Paul was right at home when he heard the minister 
utter these words for his text, which he himself had 
written long ago to the Romans. He was an attentive 
listener and wanted to hear what this same man, 
whom he had thought w^as a weather prophet, had 
to say. 

This minister spoke with much boldness and plain- 
ness of speech, which made Paul recall the days of 
Peter and the Pentecost. But when he thought again 
of the preceding forecasting of the weather and the 
unknown tongue, it caused him to recall the scene 
and the words, ' * Great is the goddess Diana ! ' ' 

Paul was surprised, yet glad, that this man could 
be used as his mouthpiece to speak some of the words 
he wished him to speak. 

Even his o^vn people were astonished at this un- 
usual sermon. They could not understand what had 
gotten into the man, or what had happened, saying 
within themselves, ^^ Never did the Most Reverend 
Grutzmun speak on this wise.'' They were almost 
ready to say, ''Lord, Lord, where dwellest thouT' 



128 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

Paul, being filled with the Spirit, allowed his whole 
soul and peace to go out to the minister, and thereby 
he laid a communication line from heart to heart-— a 
wireless telephone between the souls of Paul and 
Grutzmun. It was easy for Paul to bring about this 
harmony or agreement of soul with Grutzmun, be- 
cause the minister was at that time seeking such lines 
of inspiration and thought transference. It was on 
this account that the minister was more than his or- 
dinary self. 

(I know the above paragraph is a mystery to many 
who read it, but some sweet day, by and by, it will 
be revealed to you. It is only a little of the reflecting 
essence of the New Covenant.) 

He spoke on many things concerning which he had 
never spoken so plainly before. He told his people 
to be kind and gentle to one another, and to love their 
neighbors as themselves; no matter who they are- 
black or white, red or yellow— and no matter how 
much others may dislike them. He said: 

''Do everything fair and square, both privately and 
publicly; for remember this one thing. The Lord our 
God knoweth and seeth all things— everything we do 
and every word we say. 

''Therefore deceive not thyself; for it is thyself 
that is deceived more than thy neighbor or any one 
else. If any man wrongs thee, seek not revenge, no, 
never! But wait upon the Lord and w^atch, and you 
shall plainly see how the Lord fulfills his word and 
promise.'* 

Even the sparrows, up in the dome, were sweetly 
chattering and twittering, or echoing, as it were, the 



/ The Truth Shall Mahe You Free," 129 

same divine words of inspiration and of love. This 
caused a deeper engraving of the words upon the 
'* fleshy tables of the heart/' 

Paul rejoiced in spirit. He was exceedingly glad 
that the brother had caught, with the ear of his soul, 
now and then a few whisperings of the voice of the 
Infinite, and had made this sublime address. 

But before the sermon was over, Paul's eyes fell 
again upon the burning lamp and his own supposed 
image made of certain mixtures, standing on the far 
side of the building. This caused a sadness to come 
upon him, and he withdrew his peace and harmony 
and left the minister in his natural state again. 

Just before the time of the closing vesper drew 
near, Paul placed himself before the minister and 
said: '^Brother, I highly congratulate you for the 
words you have spoken this day to thy people; but 
the glory and honor thereof belong to the Lord. God 
bless you for this message. But whose image is this 
[pointing at one of the statues]?" 

^^This is the image of the beloved St. Peter." 

*^And whose image is that?" 

''That is our Lord Jesus Christ, nailed to the 
cross." 

''Whose images are these two in one?" 

"These are the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy 
Child Jesus." 

"Brother Grutzmun, I understand that your desire 
is to keep the whole law of Moses as well to-day as 
thou keepest the commandments of our Lord and Sa- 
viour, Jesus Christ. How can you do this? Why 
keepest thou not these words, 'Thou shalt not make 



130 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any- 
thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, 
or that is in the water under the earth'?" 

(Yes, in the broadest sense of the above Mosaic 
law, I myself would be condemned for placing the 
''likeness'' of this little child on the first page of this 
book; but am justified by this law of the New Cove- 
nant, ''For the law was given by Moses, but grace 
and truth came by Jesus Christ. And by him, all 
that believe are justified from all things, from which 
ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.") 
"Whose image is this?" 
"This is the beloved apostle St. Paul." 
"No! That can not be, for I am he!" 
Brother Grutzmun, upon hearing these shocking 
words, fell to the floor. Paul tapped him on the 
shoulder and said: "Jump up! I have a few import- 
ant things to tell you! Who told you to pray in an 
unknown tongue?" 

"Our great Master or Father over in — -" 
"Stop! Say no more! Know ye not that Jesus has 
plainly told us in these words not to call any minister 
'Father' or 'Master'? 

" 'But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Mas- 
ter, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call 
no man your Father upon the earth: for one is your 
Father, which is in heaven.' 

"Therefore if your esteemed brother over in Rome 
prayeth in his native tongue, tell him that you must 
likewise pray in a tongue that thy sheep may under- 
stand: 'For if the trumpet give an uncertain sounds 
who shall prepare himself to the battle? 



The Truth Shall Make You Free:' 131 

** 'So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue 
words easy to be understood, how shall it be known 
what is spoken I for ye shall speak into the air. 

** 'Therefore if I know not the meaning of the 
voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian; 
and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. 

'' 'Yet in the church I had rather speak five words 
with my understanding, that by my voice I might 
teach others also, than ten thousand words in an un- 
known tongue.' 

"Why burns this lamp in broad daylight?" 

Brother Grutzmun replies: "This is our signal for 
the presence or absence of the Holy Spirit. If this 
lamp were not burning, it would indicate that the 
Spirit is absent; but since it is burning, as you see, 
the Spirit is present with us." 

"Oh, what blindness and foolishness! Did Silas 
and I have a lamp burning in the prison cells of Phi- 
lippi? You know how the spirit of the Lord was with 
us there ! Go, blow out this lamp ! Blow it out ! 
Throw out this Diana and little blaze before the Lord 
thy God holds it to thy rock-powdered beliefs! 

"Put it out, and the Lord thy God will abundantly 
bless you. What a mockery to the words and Spirit 
of our Lord Jesus Christ! What an awful insult to 
the Comforter! 

"Ye are even more superstitious and narrow- 
minded in some things than the people of some of the 
other churches that I visited! Yet, in some things, 
ye are superior. Oh, give ear and understand ! 

"Have the following words of Jesus escaped your 
notice all these many, many years? 'For where two 



132 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

or three are gathered together in my name, there am 
I in the midst of them.' (Present in the Spirit or 
Comforter, the third person of the Trinity.) 

''Also these words, 'Go ye therefore, and teach all 
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, 
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ; teaching them 
to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded 
you: and la, I am with you alway, even unto the 
end of the world.' 

"Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;* 
But error crushed sinks deep within. 

"Brother Grutzmun, give an attentive ear! I un- 
derstand that thou observest what thou callest the 
Seven Sacraments. To keep and perform these right- 
eously, thou doest a good work; but these are not 
the greatest or only essence of the law. 

"Thy first sacrament is baptism, or the sprinkling 
or immersing with water in the names of the Trinity. 

"Thy second is confirmation, or 'joining the 
church.' Some of you lay greater stress on the ones 
that become members, than what others do. 

"Thy third is the Holy Eucharist, or communion. 
In this sacrament, I understand that ye ministers 
partake of both the elements— bread and wine; but 
to the laity or members ye offer only the bread. Now, 
why is this? Are ye ministering priests more sinful 
and unworthy than the laity, that ye have greater 
need to partake of both the bread and wine? Or 
are the members too low or unworthy in thy sight 
to partake of both these elements? 



The Truth Shall 2Ial'e You Freer 133 

'*Kemember, the partaking of these elements, in 
themselves, is nothing; but ye are to do these things 
as a token of love and remembrance of our dear Lord, 
who first loved us; and do it as a realizing shameful 
remembrance, on our part, of our trying to crucify 
him daily in the spirit, and knowing it not. Yea, we 
owe him a gracious remembrance for that great and 
terrible debt he paid for us. 

''Therefore, brother, understand that God is no 
respecter of persons, and whatsoever is good for thy 
soul, is also good for the souls of the laity. Neither 
is it a sin to eat before coming to the Lord's table: 
*Por if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye 
come not together unto condemnation. And the rest 
[the worldly] will I set in order when I come.' 'And 
he took the cup [not a dozen cups or a gross of 
them!], and gave thanks and gave it to them, saying, 
Drink ye all of it/ (Ye are free from cups). 

''Thy fourth is penance, or, rather, exhortation; 
which is, cautioning, warning, advising and helping 
the weak to bear their burdens, rather than laying 
things upon them which are grievous to be borne. To 
live a life in this present evil world is enough penance 
for any one. 

"Thy fifth, extreme unction, or, rather, the works 
of the good Samaritan and applications of the gifts 
of healing. 

"Thy sixth, order, or to pattern after the great 
^Minister who was an obedient and humble servant, 
doing the will of the Father, God. Which means- 
get out and hustle, and do not coop yourself up in a 



134 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

dry-goods box or palace for ages and ages, but go 
about doing good as was the Master's example. 

'*Thy seventh, matrimony— to bring purity, peace 
and felicity to the wedded pair and their posterity 
[when?] if they are both within thy pale. Is that 
all? No ! Do not hinder the will of God by constrain- 
ing one of thy lambs to go out of thy pale to find his 
or her mate whom God hath created for them. 

^^ Brother Grutzmun, if ye observe all these thy sac- 
raments, and yet fail to grasp the meaning and un- 
derstanding of the essence, or the unseen substance, 
of the royal law, it profiteth thee nothing. 

^* *If ye fulfill the royal law, according to the Scrip- 
tures, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do 
well: 

'* *But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, 
and are convinced of the law as transgressors.' 

*'Go, brother, and converse with Brother Martin, 
and he shall speak to you about thy shepherd clothes 
and other things. 

** Before I depart, I will make this announcement: 
Come out into the green field east of the city, on 
Thursday evening at six o'clock, where all denomina- 
tions shall gather together, and I shall speak to you 
with great plainness of speech, that all may under- 
stand." 

Paul puts his left hand on the brother's shoulder, 
and grasps his right hand in his, and speaks a few 
more words of encouragement to him. Also explains 
that he has spoken plainly to all the ministers and 
people with the intention only to bring more peace 
and good will to all men. 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 135 

Before Paul departed, he said: '*Let no strife, I 
pray thee, come between me and thee, for we be 
brethren. ' ' 

Paul stepped out, and is walking along the street 
viewing the beautiful lawns and surroundings. He 
feels quite hungry by this time, and looks for some 
place to go to get something to eat. As he walks 
slowly along, he sees a poor, hungry beggar, down 
on his hands and knees on one of the neat and short- 
mown lawns in front of a beautiful mansion. This 
poor beggar (Jesus in disguise) had asked the lady 
. of the house for a crust of bread, but was refused. So 
he attempted to, eat grass like the ox ; both to show 
the lady how hungry he really was, and to loosen up 
her hard heart; but this is what he received— *^ Come 
around into the back yard, where the grass is 
longer!'' 

It is not always the best thing in the world to give 
a beggar money, nor always to feed the same beggar; 
providing he is able to earn his own living. But im- 
plant in him the thought that God is ever willing to 
help him as well as any one else. This is the best 
bread you can give him, together with the lunch you 
have already given, providing he is not too badly 
crippled; even then kindness and love will work 
miracles. 

Paul didn't stop at this place for his dinner! But 
he did stop and say, *' Woman! have you not even a 
crust for this hungry man?" 

**No! not for that old tramp!" 

*' Woman! have you not even a cup of water to 
quench his thirst?" 



136 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

*'No, not for those old rags!" 

''Woman! have you not even a kind word of en- 
couragement for him, while you direct him where 
to go that he may get these necessities?" 

''No, not for that miserable pest!" 

"Woman! have you the faintest idea of whom you 
are speaking, and whom you are deceiving?" 

"Most certainly I have!!" 

Just then Jesus was transfigured before her! His 
rags now shone with the reflecting brightness of a 
mirror in the sunlight ! His face was too glorious for 
her sinful human eyes to behold, and she fell to the 
floor, blind ! 

She exclaimed: "0 Lord! have mercy upon me! 
Create, God! a pure heart and a right spirit within 
me!" 

Then Paul, with the Spirit of the Lord, in like man- 
ner questioned her to see if she really was trul}^ seek- 
ing the Lord at this time. He also passed her through 
this flery trial to draw out the refined gold, and for 
her appreciation of that glorious time, that happy day 
when Jesus washed her sins away. (Please read Matt. 
XV. 21-28.) 

Just as Paul was about to lay his hands on her and 
say, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost," they heard the 
brothers and sisters of a family across the street sing- 
ing these appropriate lines: 

"Would you lose your load of sin? 

Fix your eyes upon Jesus; 
Would you know God's peace within? 
Fix your eyes upon Jesus. 



• The Truth Shall Make You Free." 137 

CHOEUS. 

"Jesus, who on the cross did die, 
Jesus, who lives and reigns on high; 
He alone can jus-ti-fy; 
Fix your eyes upon Jesus." 

Then Paul laid his hands on her and said, ^^ Receive 
ye the Holy Ghost." He took her by the hand and 
said, ' ' Jump up ! " He put his fingers over her eyes 
and said, ''In the name of Christ, receive thy sight.'' 

After this, she looked around to see Jesus or the 
beggar, but he had departed. This now sweet, loving 
woman did not know how to go about, or what to do 
to show her appreciation and thankfulness for her 
new birth. She had now plenty of bread for both the 
beggar and Paul ; but the one was gone, and the other 
must needs go. 

As Paul was leaving the house, he heard from, across 
the street the tune and words of ''Happy Day.'' 
. This same lady joined in and caught up the chorus, 
and sang it in words as she understood and felt : 

"O happy day! peaceful day! 
For Jesus washed my sins away. 
He taught me how to see this day. 
And how to love the castaway. 
O happy day! O joyous day! 
For Jesus washed my sins away." 

Dear reader, I write not these things for merely sur- 
face reading, but get the undercurrent meaning. For 
these are even present and especially future realities 
in some form and way of the Spirit. 



138 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

How are souls won? Is it by damning them with 
lies, or by loving them and telling them the truth? 
Lov£ and truth is what the soul feeds on. 

Paul walks up the street a little farther, where he 
sees another beggar at the door of what is called a 
Christian home; rather, the home of the Pharisee. 
AVhen Paul saw these beggars, he thought of the truth 
of Christ 's words, ' ' The poor ye have with you always, 
but me ye have not always." 

That happy lady fully understands this saying now. 
She also knows that to love her neighbor as herself, does 
not only mean the family next door, but those by the 
wayside as well. She .also has learned not to forget 
to entertain strangers, for she has found some of them 
to be angels unawares. 

The second, in a way, was more liberal than the first. 
Perhaps she thought of these words, ''Cast thy bread 
upon the waters, and it shall return unto thee after 
many days." 

But let me tell you, this lady's bread came back to 
her in two ways, and before many minutes. The acts 
of this lady proved that she bestowed all her goods in 
words, to feed the poor, and had not love. 

She, while handing this beggar a dry, stale crust 
of bread, said: /'Not for your sake, nor for my sake, 
but for Christ's sake, give I this to thee!" 

The beggar gave thanks and took it, but thought 
within himself, "If this is for the Lord's sake, she 
surely would have worked on the Golden Rule, and not 
give it in such a dry and ceremonious form." So, as 
he hands it back again, he speaks these words, "Not 
for your sake, nor for my sake, but for Christ's sake, 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 139 

put a little butter on it!" Had sue given plain, cheer- 
ful bread, with cheerful words, that would have been 
the end of it. 

Did Paul stop here for his dinner? No; that was 
too much Christianity in a ''show-case" for him. He 
knew the first lady would get to see this one, and 
tell her all about true Christianity. So he travels on 
out the street until he comes to a small, old-fashioned 
cottage place. 

He goes to this place for two reasons. Not that 
he could not have had his dinner at many a fine resi- 
dence place, but he wants to cheer up the poor and 
needy, for they shall have their stay. 

Paul stands on the old stone steps and knocks at the 
door. The door was opened and he introduces himself, 
only for the purpose of giving his name. For the 
Spirit knoweth its own, and is known of them. 

Paul had not the pleasure of walking over velvet 
Brussels; neither is he asked to sit in a ''Morris Chair." 
Neither does Paul care in the least for any of these 
unnecessary, kingly things. His whole soul is based 
upon better things. 

The house is neat and tidy, but quite bare. Paul 
was ushered into the best room that poverty could 
afford ; of which this floor was covered with rag carpet, 
and Paul's chair— the old-fashioned rocker. They made 
him feel right at home, and you may be sure that Paul 
is always at home wherever he finds those that are 
meek and lowly in heart. 

The lady of the house said : "We have dinner a little 
earlier than most people ; we very seldom go to church, 



140 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

and that is why dinner is over with us to-day ; but you 
have not had your dinner, Saint Paul, have you?" 

**I have not had anything to eat since yesterday 
evening." 

**0h, you must have something to eat now!" 

The lady was going to prepare a special dinner for 
him after hearing this ; but Paul would not have it so. 
*'Give me some bread and a cup of milk, tea, coffee, 
or whatsoever is the most convenient for thee to pre- 
pare, that shall fully satisfy me." 

The lady insisted, and desired to do a great deal 
more for him ; but Paul would not have her occupy too 
much time in this way. He explained how Jesus and 
his disciples satisfied their hunger with bread and fish, 
and said what he had asked for was sufficient for him. 

(To be filled with the Spirit— or born of the Spirit— 
or to fall in love with Jesus, the body acts on the same 
principle as when you first fall in love with your lover 
or sweetheart; that is, it can go quite a long time, if 
needs be, without eating very much or anything.) 

The children wore what we call shabby clothes, yet 
had clean hands and faces ; the smaller ones were be- 
ginning to climb upon Paul's knees, as they were used 
to climbing and hanging over their father's knees. 

The father wanted to stop them from becoming so 
familiar with this saintly man. But Paul said: ^'For- 
bid them not on my account, for you know not how 
much I enjoy the nestling of little children. God bless 
these little ones!" 

The lady came in and said. ^* Brother Paul, your 
lunch is now ready. ' ' He thanks her for all things con- 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 141 

nected therewith, and then, as he is about to partake 
of them, he gives thanks to the high and holy One. 

Paul asked the mother why she and her husband 
and children did not attend one of the churches. 

With tears in her eyes, she exclaimed: **Dear Broth- 
er Paul, it is not that we don't like to go! It is not 
that we don't want to go!" 

^^Well, what is the matter? Speak out!'' 

*^ Saint Paul, you know not how fashionable our 
churches have grown within the last decade! The 
clothes which we now have on, as you see, are our 
best; and as my husband has a small income, on ac- 
count of losing his left hand in the mill, we can not 
afford to put on any style, and also feed our family." 

''Well, I see nothing wrong with your clothes," said 
Paul. 

''That is the truth, but when we do go to church, 
our costumes are so plain and noticeable among the 
others, that we could not attract the eyes of others 
any more if we should come in our 'night-clothes.' 
This makes us feel so small and out of place that we 
feel we could crawl through a tiny mouse-hole. How- 
ever, we know that this feeling is good for the soul, 
but not too much of it. (Be ye temperate in all things.) 
This is why we would rather stay at home than to be 
the talk of the town." 

This grieved Paul to the utmost parts of his soul. 
For he knew he had not seen in all the churches such 
plain, common (godly) clothes. This was a new form 
of idolatry, with which Paul did not have to contend 
in earlier days. In those days he had to break down 
all manner of "Dianas" made of iron, brass, clay, 



142 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

stone and even gold, together with all manner of fleshy 
lusts. 

To-day many of the people's hearts are set upon the 
^'Dianas" made of silk and satin, broadcloth and 
worsted, and a whole host of other things, together 
with all fleshy lusts, pecuniary lusts and trusts, and a 
large natatorium of all kinds of ^^ liquor" to bathe in. 

Oh, learn and apply the *' golden law," '*Be ye tem- 
perate in all things. ' ' Remember, it is no sin, in itself, 
to wear silk, or any other goods ; but the sin lies in the 
manner and spirit it maketh thee to be. If it causes 
thee to be proud and drunk with ^*puffed-up-ness," 
then it is a sin for thee to wear it. Then the best thing 
you can do, is to put it in the rag-bag or waste-basket. 
Neither is it a sin to wear old or patched clothes; for 
Jesus speaks of this and everything else we ought to 
know. ' * He that readeth, let him also understand. ' ' 

Paul leaves this humble family after speaking words 
of comfort to them, relating the parable of the rich 
man and poor Lazarus. But before he goes he hears 
these words of welcome: 

*' Brother Paul, we would be very glad and thank- 
ful to have you come this evening and stay with us 
to-night, if it is not putting you to any inconvenience." 

' ' Thank you, my dear brother and sister. I shall be 
delighted to do so. I shall, if God be willing, be here 
by eight o'clock. God be with you." 

^'Good-by, Brother Paul." 

Paul goes out among the sick, poor and needy. He 
heals the sick; he inspires the poor with encouraging 
thoughts of greater attainments. To the needy, he 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 143 

sits down, as it were, by the mountain-side, and unfolds 
the Sermon on the Mount. 

The time passes very quickly, and as he is about 
to make one more call, he steps into a place where it 
seems the ''house is divided/' 

The parents of this family are ''hard-shelled" be- 
lievers. Neither of them would budge an inch. They 
were not this way so much at first, but, on account of 
the "busybodies" on both sides feeding their creed- 
side-sake with lies instead of the truth, the contention 
between the couple was made so fierce that it became 
unbearable. All on account of misunderstanding the 
truth, and each other, and feeding on busybody food. 

This couple is what the world calls a Protestant and 
a Roman Catholic. But Paul steps in, in time, and ex- 
plains the whole matter to them, and causes both to 
see things in the real light ; then they both labored to- 
gether cheerfully the self-same hour and prepared 
for Paul a supper. Did Paul hinder them because 
they prepared a supper for him on the Sabbath dayf 
No ! Let the good will and work go on ! 

Paul had hard work to get away from this place; 
as you might know, when he has brought about for 
this pair a love akin to that they felt when first they 
fell in love. 

But he explains the whole matter and tells them 
how that humble family is looking for him. They 
reason with Paul and consent to his wish, knowing that 
they have plenty of new, lasting love to talk about, 
v\^hich will entertain them the remainder of their days, 
and through eternity. 



144 ''Ye Shall Know the Truths and 

Paul travels back to the old cottage again, and is 
greeted by all, and especially by the little ones, with 
these words: '^Good evening, St. Paul! we are glad 
you have come; but eight o'clock is our bedtime, so, 
good night, St. Paul!" 

''Good night, little lambs!" 

The mother takes them into the next room and pre- 
pares them for bed. 

Paul and the father and the larger children were 
joined in a cheerful conversation, when all at once a 
great silence overtook them. They heard the little 
ones in the next room praying, and thus little Ruth 
speaks : 

"Gentle Jesus, meek and mild. 
Look upon a little child; 
Give me grace to follow thee, 
That my life a blessing be." 

Next her little brother, George, utters a prayer, the 
same which it is said that John Quincy Adams was 
taught by his mother, and used from boyhood to old 
age: 

" 'Now I lay me down to sleep, 

I pray the Lord my soul to k^ep; 
If I should die before I wake, 
I pray the Lord my soul to take.' 

"God bless 
Father, mother. Saint Paul, 
Sisters, brothers and all. 

Amen." 

Who prays for little baby? Ah, yes, who prays? 
The good mother, silently in her heart to God, until 
baby is large enough to pray for itself. Does she 
cease her praying for them then ? No ! But she prays 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 145 

silently without ceasing, and at times with the voice; 
praying only for them to be good, and not to be great 
— great thieves or robbers. 

The babies are all asleep, and the mother comes and 
joins the circle. 

Paul asked them: ^^In what church do you seem to 
be the most welcome or feel the most at home?'' 

^'Well, Brother Paul, we find the good and true- 
hearted in all the different churches, but we find also 
all other kinds which make up this world. If we feel 
like worshiping the Lord a little on our knees, we must 
go to the Methodists, Christian Alliance, or to the Ro- 
mans, and occasionally to the Lutherans, for that. 
If we want to be baptized in the manner our Lord 
Jesus was baptized, we have to go to the Baptists, or 
to the Christian Church." 

'* Pardon me for interrupting you! But what church 
did you call the latter?" 

^^Why, the Christian Church!" 

^'I must have missed that one in my visits. How 
do you like their way of presenting the truth ? ' ' 

^^Well, if they would only sing a few more Psalms, 
and kneel once during their prayers, and heal a few 
of the lingering sick, then would they be my Christ- 
ideal. But as they are, we count them only equal with 
all others; yet they, and a few others, have thrown 
away creed, and taken up Christ. 

*'If we want to worship the Lord by singing mostly 
hymns and spiritual songs, we can go either to the 
Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Christians, Luther- 
ans, Baptists, Christian Scientists, Romans, Christian 
Alliance, and a few others ; but if we want to worship 



146 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

our dear Lord with the Psalms, and Psalms only, and 
observe the Lord's Table only three times a year in- 
stead of four or twelve or fifty-two times in a year, we 
go to the United Presbyterians." 

('^For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this 
cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come.") 

'*If we want to commune, and be caught up and 
meet our Lord in the air, we go to the Christian Sci- 
entists." 

It is now 9:30 P. M., and Paul said, ''Probably it 
is your bedtime?" 

^'Yes, we generally go at 9, 9:30 or 10; and if you 
wish to retire, we shall do the same." 

Paul said, ''Let us pray." He and the family knelt 
down in the same manner as he and his company of 
old knelt down on the sand of Asia before he departed 
for Jerusalem: 

"Our Father, which art in heaven, we come unto 
thee at this time and all times with thankful hearts. 
God, bless, I pray thee, this family and all families. 
Help us, that we through thee may help others. Help 
us always to see and remove the beam that is within 
our own eyes, before we try to take out the mote from 
our neighbor's eye. Help us to realize that thou art the 
ever-present, all-powerful, all-wise God, who knowest 
what we have need of before we ask thee. 

"Therefore, as thou wilt, even so be it measured unto 
us. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the 
glory, forever. This we ask in Jesus' name. Amen." 

They went to their rooms, and realized that the 
prayer of Paul was not offered that they need not 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 147 

pray ; but to be able to pray in a clearer light, in which 
each did. 

They retired for the night and had a peaceful, re- 
freshing sleep. 

In the morning, to their surprise, Paul was up first, 
and had kindled the fire in the stove, and filled the 
kettle with water and had it boiling before the family 
awoke. 

You know Paul never paid any board, neither did 
he charge anything for preaching the gospel, saying: 
^ ' What is my reward then ? Verily that, when I preach 
the gospel, I may take the gospel of Christ without 
charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel." 

This is why Paul kindled the fire and did everything 
he could to earn his breakfast. 

It seemed as if the family arose all at one time ; for 
it was ^^Good morning, St. Paul," from all sides, and 
he answered in like manner. As little Ruth and George, 
ahead of their time, came walking over to their parents 
in their bare feet, carrying their shoes and stockings— 
(^*0h, don't say that St. Paul caught them in their 
bare feet!!" Yes, I will say more: Paul would not 
have thought anything of it if they had come out in 
their clothes which lay next to the skin. Yea, the less 
sin within, the less we look upon these things with the 
eye of lust. For it is written of man before he fell, 
*'They were naked and were not ashamed.") 

Paul called Ruth to come to him, and he put her on 
his knees and helped her on with her footwear, while 
her father was helping George the best he could with 
his one hand. 



148 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

After they were all ready for breakfast, and had 
gathered around the table, Paul said: '^Now, silently, 
in your hearts, give thanks unto the Lord for all 
things.'' 

After one minute of silent prayer or thanksgiving, 
they began eating breakfast. The chief subject of con- 
versation was children, and what they should eat and 
drink. 

Paul said: **Let your children partake of the same 
things that ye are partakers thereof; only in smaller 
quantities, and some things diluted." 

'*Well, Paul, is it all right for parents who drink 
at times— wine, or beer, ale, porter, cider or whisky 
—also to give some to their children ?'' 

*^Most certainly, in accordance with the law; but if 
they drink, and allow not their children to have any, 
then their children are far worse off than the children 
of those parents who do not use it in any way or form. 

*'This is the time to quench bodily cravings, if they 
are found in some, and not withhold it from them until 
they are of age, when their appetite or craving after 
it is so strong that they can not control themselves. 
It is of the same nature as when your little ones, in a 
certain period of life, crave for fatty meats. Do they 
crave for fatty meats all their life, if they get it at the 
proper time ? No. 

' ' Give them a mouthful from your cup as you drink, 
if they desire it, but force them not. Let them grow 
up with it; that is, know its taste, and all its effects. 
Then, when they reach manhood, they will think no 
more of it than water." 



Tie Truth Shall Make You Free." 149 

(This is how I was reared and taught to look upon 
things from my youth up, but did not realize and un- 
derstand fully what it meant until not much more than 
one happy, peaceful year ago. Yea, many times had 
I to take hot drinks before going to bed, whether I 
wanted to or not. I thank God for all these things, 
and that such has been the lot for me.) 

*'Yea, teach them the right uses of these things and 
the extent of the law, while you have them under your 
thumb; but with great sorrow must I say, in many 
places, or homes, the children have their parents un- 
der their thumbs— a terrible contrariness to the will 
of God I What worse thing is there in a family than 
a disobedient child, with all its devilish devices ! But 
mistake not godliness for devilishness. 

*^Yea, teach your children the truth in all things 
and in time ; for if you will not do this, some one else 
will, and generally in the wrong way. Shall we cast 
all the blame on the young man or the young woman 
if they fall? No ! Share it out to where it belongs! 

*'Use all manner of kindness, firmness, love, per- 
suasion and a large measure of patience while train- 
ing your children. This will be sufficient for most of 
them, if you show from your heart that you love them 
and mean what you say. If it be necessary, it is 
better to use the rod once than spoil the child. But, 
above all things, forget not that ye were once chil- 
dren, and that ye loved that time set apart for play. 

^*Make not one hundred and one rules for your 
children, and have them trample down the one hun- 
dred and obey the one as they please; but have one 



150 ''Ye Shall Knoiv tie Truth, and 

rule for the whole family, and that is this, do, and do 
it now. 

*^I shall quote a few lines from the American poet, 
even as I also have quoted from the Grecian poet : 

" *Let us, then, be up and doing. 
With a heart for axy fate; 
Still achieving, still pursuing, 

Learn to labor and to WArr' (upon God). 

'^For in him we live, and move, and have our being.'' 

Paul, after breakfast, and after this long conversa- 
tion was over, invited them to come to the great gath- 
ering. He bids the mother and children farewell. He 
walks down the street a little ways with their father 
as he goes to work. 

*^Well, dear brother, we must part; forget not to 
come to the green field, and good morning to you!'' 

^^Good morning, Brother Paul!" 

Paul goes out to comfort the poor and the needy 
until Thursday ; and invites all to come to this meeting. 

Thursday evening came almost too soon for Paul. 
He was so busy among the poor and the afflicted that 
the space of time seemed to him only as a few hours 
since he visited the first church. (Does the time seem 
long to thee when thou art with the one whom you 
love? Well, such was it with Paul.) 

Paul did not stay in his study-room to prepare a 
great speech for the occasion. No, he has never given 
it a moment's thought, for he knows in that hour the 
Spirit shall direct him as to what he shall say and do. 

The evening was calm and placid, bathed in the 
light of the low descending sun : but Paul had not yet 
prepared a place whereon to stand. He sees an empty 



The Truth Shall Mal'c You Free/' 151 

piano-box at the nearest house to this field, and asks 
a few others to help him bring it to the spot where 
he has chosen to place it. They place it with the 
largest side to the ground. 

Behold, the people come by hundreds from all direc- 
tions ! What a glorious sight ! What a waving ocean 
of people! Paul is standing upon his humble pulpit. 
He knows that the pulpit, or his clothes, or any other 
earthly contrivance, has nothing to do with putting 
forth a powerful address. 

The appointed time is about up— but still they come ! 
A small flag, a foot wide, was handed to Paul by the 
largest boy of that humble family, as a token of love. 
He gave thanks, and took the flag of Stars and Stripes, 
and with a peculiar waving and beckoning, he brings 
this mighty ocean of souls to a standstill; yea, to a 
quietness that surpasses our understanding. Paul 
speaks in a loud, clear voice, saying: 

** Every one unite and sing Old Hundred! 

** 'All people that on earth do dwell.' " 

Paul beckons and keeps time with the flag. He 
thinks no more of this flag than \e does of the flag 
of any other nation ; but he highly respects it for love 
and liberty's sake, and for the nation with whom he 
now is. 

Oh, what hearty singing! What a mighty sound! 
Behold the echoes between the stanzas! The earth 
trembled ! The sun, as he moved slowly over the moun- 
tain, and with his last peep at the multitudes, had the 
expression on his face as if he wished to say, ''God 
bless you all. Amen." 



152 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

Paul lifts his hands and the little flag heavenward, 
and says: ''Sing again! Yea, sing into practice the 
hymn of hymns : 

** *Blest be the tie that binds 
Our hearts in Christian love.' " 

After the singing of this ''Magnetic" song, Paul 
silences the multitudes again and is ready to give what 
we might call 

PAULAS SPECIAL ADDRESS TO THE CREEDS OE AMERICA. 

"Dear children of the one great family! Give ear 
unto my words, and understand ! 

"Dear children of the same Lord, Creator, Father, 
God, be attentive ; I shall not keep you long ! Neither 
will I dwell on any subject that is already clear to you. 

"Ye people who dwell in this beautiful land of 
Canaan, which flows with milk and honey ! Ye people 
who are as swift as the eagle in good and evil, and 
have his great wings spread and stamped upon all 
your dollars ! Ye people who have the key of the 
heavenly kingdom written upon your silver and gold, 
and carry it in your pockets, and many know it not ! 

"Why is it that ye are at enmity with each other, 
and with nations, to a certain extent, and have not as 
yet come to a plain, simple understanding of the truth 
with one another? 

"Oh, go read the superscription that you find be- 
tween the eagle's wings, and likewise that on the op- 
posite side!' Oh, learn to know and to think more of 
these words than of the material upon which they are 
engraved ! 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 153 

**Ye people of this glorious land of promise and of 
liberty ! Why have ye not, in all these years, imbibed 
more of the same mind that was also in Christ Jesus? 
Even because ye were searching more for the mate- 
terial eagle and trusting in it, than in Him of whom 
it reads— 'In God We Trust.' *E Pluribus Unum.' 
(In union [Christ] there is strength.) Liberty. (The 
Spirit of the Lord.) 

'"Ye people, who have the most sublime make-up of 
coins on earth ! Yea, the superscription reads in plain 
words; as, 'The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.' 

''The name of the Father is written on the sky, as 
seen beween the eagle's wings; the Son is lifted up 
above the head of the image— not Caesar's image, but, 
as I understand, that of the good heroine— Nellie 
Bland ; the symbol of the Holy Spirit is written on her 
hair-comb above her forehead. 

"Yea, ye people who need not take any 'scrip' or 
rolls of money with you, but can reach down in your 
pockets, and teach all nations or nationalities from 
your beautiful coins:— baptizing them in the name of 
the Father,, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; 
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever is 
written thereon. Teaching them that God has not 
blessed you as a nation, because the words read, 'The 
United States of America,' but because the Spirit of 
love and liberty reads. The United Hearts of America. 
Yea, and I speak at this time that in the near future 
it shall read, The United Hearts and Mind (one mind) 
of America. 

"Ye people, who have all these blessed privileges! 



154 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

why is all this division among you? I know your 
works, and how ye stand in the faith! 

*^Ye people of this glorious land of promise and of 
liberty! why have ye not, in all these years, imbibed 
more of the same mind that was also in Christ Jesus? 

^'How is it that some of you come with a doctrine 
and a Psalm ; some, with another doctrine and a hymn ; 
some, with still another, and a song; and some still 
come with stones and pebbles to crucify— ye know not 
what; and some come not at all? 

*' Which is the greatest song?— the Psalm, the hymn, 
or the spiritual song? Is it the Psalm, which is the 
word of God, spoken by the mouth of David, and put 
into metrical rhythm by men? Or is it the hymn, 
which is the word of God, spoken by Jesus Christ and 
the apostles, which is likewise put into metrical ver- 
sions by men ? Or is it the spiritual song, which is the 
word of God, spoken by Jesus, and the extracting 
essence of all the apostles and prophets, which are in 
like manner composed into metrical version by men? 

*' Which is the greater, or greatest? Why condemn 
ye one or two, and uphold the other ? In other words, 
why try ye to divide the Christ? 

**Has not the basis or foundation of all these pro- 
ceeded from the one great source? God is all, and in 
all; and there is no difference! Therefore, hold fast 
and partake of the Trinity songs. 

''Know ye not that God is no respecter of nations 
or creeds or sects or sexes or persons? Why try ye 
to break down the will of God in the marriage rela- 
tion? Know ye not that it is the will of God that he 
or she whom ye call a Presbyterian shall marry a Ro- 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 155 

man Catholic, or whomsoever God wills? Know ye 
not that there is no such distinction in the sight of 
God as Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Methodist, or 
any other creed; but God's distinction is that he is the 
Father, Christ is the Son, and the Comforter or Spirit 
shall dwell in God's children. Yea, we are known of 
God only as his children, or heirs, or sons through 
Jesus Christ; and known as joint-heirs with our Elder 
Brother and Master. But we are brethren— brothers 
and sisters of the one great family. 

''If ye all were born of the Spirit, all this envy and 
strife and ignorance and narrow-mindedness would 
vanish away. Are not many yet carnal? 

''Have not some of you many times tried to stop 
this intermarriage of creeds? But God will have it 
so ! Yea, God will marry whom he will marry ; and 
ye try to withhold or separate those he hath joined 
together. Yes, ye make the lives of these two inno- 
cent ones most miserable, simply bcause they have 
listened to the voice of the Infinite, and have obeyed 
the will of God, and have cast your commandments, 
and doctrines of men into oblivion! On this account 
do some of you banish them from your churches, and 
try to crush to earth the very elect of God! 

' ' Speak I these things to your praise ? No ! Forget 
not! I speak these things to your shame! 

"Oh, how is it that ye can discern the workings 
of the weather, and the movements of the heavenly 
planets, but ye can not even get glimpses of the work- 
ing and the marching on of the almighty God? 

"Oh, ye parents, speak plainly to your children 
when they have reached the age of puberty ! Explain 



156 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

to them the true and only purpose of this part of nature, 
that they fall not into condemnation, as many now do, 
on account of their ignorance, and a sad neglect of 
your great duty. Speak and teach them the plain 
truth, and ye need not have any fear to allow them to 
associate with the opposite sex. There will be no 
evil results. Teach them also to cease their cursing 
and swearing; but take first ye heed to these same 
instructions and warnings. 

*'Let all separate and put away their command- 
ments and doctrines of men from the truth that ye 
now already have, and take upon yourselves more and 
more the one and only faith in God— which is the 
Christ, or catholic faith. I mean not the Roman nor 
any other creed ! No ! But the holy catholic faith— 
that faith, hope and love which gives birth to the same 
mind that was also in Christ Jesus. 

'* 'For this is the covenant that I will make with 
the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; 
I will put my laws into their minds, and write them 
in their hearts ; and I will be to them a God ; and they 
shall be to me a people: 

'*' 'And they shall not teach every man his neigh- 
bor, and every man his brother, saying. Know the 
Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the 
greatest. 

'* 'For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, 
and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no 
more. 

" 'In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made 
the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth 
old is ready to vanish away/ 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 157 

**Let none of you say to thy neighbor creeds, Thou 
hast too much of this or that in thy doctrine, or thou 
hast not enough of this ! But let every creed examine 
itself. First pull out the beam from thine own eye, 
that thou mayest see and awake in a measure to His 
likeness. And until thou art through with this work, 
thy neighbor will also be through. (The end of life 
here.) 

** Whosoever is ashamed or afraid to sing Psalms, 
hymns and spiritual songs collectively, of him will the 
Son of man also be ashamed. He also thereby is not 
allowing Jesus to wash his feet, neither is he 
washing his brother's feet, even by being ashamed 
to join in and sing his brother's song. Neither shall 
he have any part with Him. 

**0h, is heaven divided into so many spaces, 
That aU creeds take their selfish places? 
No! I find not such revealed in His word — 
Snch wonld be hell, and torment transferred! 

*'I told you I would explain the Trinity song-book. 
In reality, or in paper form, there is not such a book 
out yet ; therefore is it the latest book. 

**But this Trinity song-book, as I wish to have you 
understand, is a song-book of the heart— a heart free 
from all commandments and doctrines of men, but sat- 
urated with the commandments of love from the Lord, 
Yea, a heart that can and will cheerfully sing these 
Trinity songs with the spirit and understanding. 
Therefore this Trinity song-book is a heart that knows 
the truth at least in a measure that all ought to know, 
and loves the truth and the place wheresoever it is 
made manifest. 



158 'Te Shall K^iow the Truth, and 

** * Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding 
what the will of the Lord is. 

** 'And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; 
but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to yourselves in 
psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and 
making melody in your hearts to the Lord: 

'^ * Giving thanks always for all things unto God 
and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ; 
submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of 
God. 

** 'Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and 
beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of 
mind, meekness, longsuffering ; forbearing one an- 
other, and forgiving one another, if any man have a 
quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so 
also do ye. 

'' 'Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all 
wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in 
psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with 
grace in your hearts to the Lord. 

" 'Wives, submit yourselves unto your own hus- 
bands, as it is fit in the Lord. 

" 'Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter 
against them. 

" 'Children, obey your parents in all things; for 
this is well pleasing unto the Lord. 

" 'Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest 
they be discouraged. 

" 'Servants, obey in all things your employers ac- 
cording to the flesh; not with eye service, as men 
pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God; and 
whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 159 

not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall re- 
ceive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the 
Lord Christ. 

'' 'For he that doeth wrong shall receive for the 
wrong which he hath done : and there is no respect of 
persons. 

'' 'May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with 
you all. Amen.' 

''Let us unite in heart and mind, and sing Hymn 
No. 190 (my mother's favorite hymn) : 

" *The mistakes of my life have been many. 
The sins of my heart have been more, 
And I scarce can see for weeping. 
But I'll knock at the open door. 

CHORUS. 

"*I know I am weak and sinful, 
It comes to me more and more; 
But when the dear Saviour shall bid me come in, 
ril enter the open door. 

" *I am lowest of those who love Him, 
I am weakest of those who pray; 
But I come as He has bidden. 
And He will not say me nay.' 

^'Before we depart, sing again in Hymn No. 340, 
first and fourth stanzas— 'God be with you.' 

" 'God be with you till we meet again! 
By his counsels guide, uphold you, 
With his sheep securely fold you; 
God be with you till we meet again! 



160 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

CHORUS. 

" 'Till we meet, . . . till we meet, 
Till we meet at Jesus' feet. 

" 'God be with you till we meet again! 
Keep love's banner floating o'er you, 
Smite death's threat'ning wave before you; 
God be with you till we meet again!' 

"Sing, brethren! sing, and do rejoice! 
Sing to the Lord with a tuneful voice! 
Sing to the high and holy One! 
Ring in, in full, the Millennium! 
Call back the ones you have cast astray! 
O God, thy kingdom come — that perfect day!" 

(After the singing of this hymn, Paul lifts up his 
holy hands with a blessing and benediction.) 

"O gracious Spirit, true and tender, 

May thy will in earth be done; 
Water these plants, so weak and slender, 
Send also a drop for the little ones. 

''To God only wise, be glory, through Jesus Christ, 
forever. Amen/' 



The Truth Shall Make You Free." 161 



CHAPTER VII. 

Pood for the Body and Soul. 

food for the body. 

Did you ever hear this curious statement, '*Tell me 
what you eat, and I will tell you what you are"? 

The composer of this statement, or question, prob- 
ably had this truth in mind, that we should not eat 
the same kind of food, day after day, and month after 
month, but should make a change, and have varieties. 
Or, ''A change of pasture is good for the sheep," in 
every way you view it. 

But the misleading thought of the above statement 
is this: Probably if you or I could have seen King 
Nebuchadnezzar eating grass, we would have ex- 
claimed, ^^Oh, you cow! you are an ox!" Or, *'You 
burro! what a peculiar-looking billy-goat!" 

Also, from the way it reads, one had better not eat 
any pork, for fear of bristles growing on the back of 
the neck! Nor eat any beef, or venison, or mutton, 
for fear of horns growing out from the head, or the 
body becoming covered with a crop of wool. Or prob- 
ably we had better not eat any fish, for fear of our 
faces becoming covered with scales and fins. 

The Lord says: **Take no thought for your life, 
what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink ; nor yet for 
your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more 
than meat, and the body than raiment?'^ 



162 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

The apostle Paul speaks of these very same things, 
and explains them in these words: 

''Whatever is sold in the shambles [butcher-shop or 
storehouses], that eat, asking no question for con- 
science' sake: 

''For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness 
thereof." 

("Yes, but Paul also said, *If eating meat causeth 
my brother to offend, I will not eat meat as long as the 
world standeth, lest I cause my brother to offend.' " 

No ! he does not say that ! This is what he says : 
"Wherefore, [for what reason] if meat [what kind] 
make my brother [who] to offend, I will eat no flesh 
while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to 
offend." 

Why don't you quit eating meat or flesh, if you 
think it means that? 

Why don't you stop eating pork, for you, in 
your meaning, are oft'ending your brother, the Jew? 

Is this the meaning that Paul wants us to take from 
it? No! No! No! 

It is eating meat offered up unto idol "Dianas." It 
is eating meat— the meat of lying, swearing, stealing, 
adultery, drunkenness, idleness, and everything else 
that warreth against the Spirit—of some of which 
flesh, dear brother and sister, you and I have eaten 
enough to damn our souls to hell ! were it not for the 
grace of God, through the blood (Spirit) of the Lamb. 

Listen to what Paul has still further to say on the 
subject: 

"If any of them that believe not [on the Lord Jesus 
Christ] bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 163 

whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question 
for conscience' sake. 

'^But if any man say unto you, This is offered in 
sacrifice unto idols, eat not, for his sake that showed it, 
and for conscience' sake; for the earth is the Lord's, 
and the fullness thereof: 

'* Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: 
for why is my liberty judged of another man's con- 
science ? 

**For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil 
spoken of for that for which I give thanks? 

*^ Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever 
ye do, do all to the glory of God. 

**Give none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the 
Gentiles, nor to the church of God: 

^*Even as I please all men [who seek the truth] in 
all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit 
of many, that they may be saved." 

Now let me ask this question. Was it on account of 
the wine that Belshazzar and his lords drank, that 
caused the handwriting to come upon the wallf or 
was it the eating and drinking of this feast, which was 
done to the glory of and in sacrifice to gods made of 
gold, of silver, brass, iron, wood and stone? 

What caused the hand of God to come? Must we 
call again on Paul to answer it? Tea, for fear we are 
handed some ijiore rock-powder for an answer! The 
latter was the cause: if that were not true, then all 
that I have quoted from the New Covenant would be 
false, and also these words: 

''Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is 



164 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

without the body; but he that committeth fornication 
sinneth against his own body." 

Therefore if you go to your next-door neighbor, or 
any other place, and are there for a meal, eat and 
drink whatsoever is set before you ; if it is done simply 
for the satisfying of your hunger and for the glory 
of God. 

If it should only be a lunch of bread, fish and a glass 
of water, or wine, or milk, ice-tea, cocoa or buttermilk, 
do as Jesus and the apostles did, and condemn not. 

Or, if it be a meal consisting of rye bread, boiled 
cabbage, fried potatoes, boiled beef and a cup of coffee, 
do likewise. 

If it be only brown bread and butter, boiled pota- 
toes in the rough, and a bowl of buttermilk, do the 
same. 

If it be only bread, potatoes, boiled pork and sour- 
krout, coffee, cheese and dried apple pie, do likewise. 

''Oh, but my stomach is too fine and delicate to 
eat of such things!" 

What made your stomach so fine and delicate, or, 
rather, corrupt? Your rock-powdered beliefs! Yes, 
these things are too coarse ; but to saturate your stom- 
ach and system with a lot of obnoxious drugs is noth- 
ing! 

Some of you would have made very, very poor 
early disciples for Jesus. Yea, ye would have been 
a disgrace to him, with your ''drug store" that some 
of you carry about your clothes, while with him as 
he was healing the sick. 

Yea, how much more disgrace to the Christ cause 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 165 

and idea, if you should have been one of those dis- 
ciples who performed the deeds of healing. 

If you would have been with Peter, James and John, 
and before you would have been of any use to them, 
they would first have had need to say unto thee, **In 
the name of Christ, come out of him!" 

(This *^new tongue" may be a mystery to many, but 
is understood by all those who are born with a rich 
measure of the Spirit.) 

Did Jesus say that your stomach and mine were too 
fine? Did he even say that we are to corrupt our 
temples with daily habits of drugs? 

Know ye not that the less medicine you take, the 
better off you are! Know ye not that your family 
doctor is forced, at times, by some of you, to give you 
medicine of a nature similar to bread pills or sweet- 
ened water, with some kind of flavor, merely to satisfy 
your blind beliefs, and Satanic influence which is 
holding you? 

Jesus says, *'Take no thought as to what ye shall 
eat." And how much less are we to take thought of 
the food— after it is eaten. 

Yea, could we all even forget that we have a stom- 
ach, and let the unseen power of the Spirit have his 
free course, what a glory to God in the highest there 
would be. 

Know ye not that Jesus came to tell us that the 
same power— God, who created us— shall also sustain 
and keep our bodies in perfect health, in the same 
manner as that of the sparrow or squirrel, or any 
other free creature, for the allotted time which is 
given us here, if we only had a little faith, hope and 



166 ''Te Shall Know tie Truth, and 

love one-fourth the size of a grain of mustard seed in 
comparison? Yes, only this much trust in God; and 
not be continually warring against his will. 

Let every one eat and drink in a- measure and in 
accordance with the vocation which they follow. If 
the hearty meal of the ditch-digger were to be eaten 
by the book-keeper or banker, he would be in misery ; 
likewise the ditch-digger with the small meal of the 
banker—he would wilt in the ditch. 

But learn to eat corn cakes as well as jelly cakes; 
brown and rye bread as well as lily-white bread ; boiled 
potatoes in the rough as well as mashed or sweet po- 
tatoes ; dried apple pie as well as orange custard— 
or no pie ; a dish of boiled cabbage, or kraut, as well 
as tapioca or cottage pudding; beef and pork in any 
eatable form as well as eggs, fowls, game, fish or oys- 
ters ; onions and horse-radish as well as beets and let- 
tuce. *^For the earth is the Lord^s, and the fullness 
thereof.'' 

Do not condemn the food whch is set before you, 
nor speak evil of it to others; but if it does not suit 
you, go elsewhere. But, above all things, condemn 
neither the food offered, nor those who offer it to you 
without cost. And forget not the fact that we do not 
live to eat, but we eat to live. 

But what shall we call the following method: 

Suppose you and I go into a restaurant, and we 
order some rolls, a cup of coffee, a dish of baked beans, 
and probably a piece of pie for each of us. Our rolls 
come on two beautifully decorated China plates, with 
three rolls on each; our beans in like manner and 
quantity ; and likewise our pie ; and the coffee in close- 



Tlie Truth Shall MaU You Freer 167 

ly related vessels. Yea, and our bill comes also in a 
tray, with a smiling, anxious waiter behind it. Our 
bill, in large figures, tells us it is eighty cents. 

Neither of us have eighty cents in change—and the 
waiter and the cashier are glad of it. This brings still 
greater smiles and acts of politeness from the waiter. 
Why? Has his loving heart gone out to us in such a 
short time? No, but it is ready to center itself upon 
the almighty dollar or dime which we are going to 
give him. We place the dollar in the tray and it is 
taken over to the cashier, and he fixes up the change. 
He is very sorry that there are no twenty-cent pieces 
to make the change ; but for fear even if he had, he 
finds it the best plan to make it two dimes. This will 
allow each a nickel for their smile (grin). From all 
appearances, I know not whether these poor, hungry 
men receive any salary from the large corporations 
or companies for whom they labor, or not. 

What shall I say? Shall I blame these men for 
dividing the * Hips'' among themselves that they re- 
ceive from whomsoever is willing to give in this way? 
No ! oh, no ! They do not demand one cent of you 
or me. But they do go about it in a hungry, notice- 
able way. Yet, these men, in reality, shine as perfect 
gentlemen compared with the ones who are at the 
head of the concern. 

Any man, corporation or company who will charge 
and demand twice as much for his goods as the same 
can be secured almost anywhere else, and possibly of 
better value, is a ^^ barefaced" or daylight robber. I 
would rather have him come to me and charge me 
twenty cents for the same lunch, and knock me down 



168 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

and rob me of the other twenty cents, than to do it 
in the way it is done at some places to-day. 

Why would I rather have such treatment? Because 
then it would appear clear and plain to all that such 
are thieves and robbers, and then the law could help 
us out. 

I gave this illustration— not to condemn these, our 
brothers, but as a warning for all. ^^For the earth is 
the Lord's, and the fullness thereof." 

Another great and important kind of food which 
must naturally go hand in hand with the food I have 
already mentioned, is sunshine, and a sufficient 
amount of activity of the body as well as the mind- 
work or exercise of any kind that will bring all parts 
of the body into play or use. 

A sufficient amount of ^'sunshine" is absolutely nec- 
essary, if enduring health is desired. Be not ashamed 
if your lily-white face and hands are tanned from 
the sun. No, no matter if your 'temple" becomes 
as brown or red as the Indian's. Remember, this will 
not defile the ^^nner man"— you. 

I would a thousand times rather look upon a healthy 
"plant" growing out in the fresh air and sunshine 
than a weak, delicate, pale-looking "potato sprout" 
growing in the cellar. 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 169 

FOOD FOR THE SOUL. 

Oh, how shall we feed this wonderful soul, 
That it may grow beautiful and perfectly whole? 
Shall we try to keep it penned up in wood, 
And feed it on lies, and everything not good? 

Shall we smother His voice, and say, "Stay therein— 
Till the body fills up with fornication and sin"? 
Shall we also say, "Hush! be sad, my little man, 
While I disfigure my face, like an old tin can"? 

"Oh, hush, inner man! you seem like a boy! 
Be sad in God's house, or he will us destroy!" 
Satan, get thee hence! I am not a boy! 
I will enter His courts with fullness of joy! 

Satan, get thee hence! There is the door! 

1 shall speak of Love! I have the fioor! 
You tried to condemn me of all that's true. 

And rob me of Jesus and Father — all this did you! 

Oh, corrupt fleshy mind, get thee hence! I say; 
With thy cunning devices, away, away! 
You have damned many, many a soul to hell; 
But you shall be chained, you know very well. 

You make them believe they're on the right track. 
You get them started, then giggle to their back; 
A host of other things you make them believe. 
Then chuckle and titter and laugh up your sleeve! 

You feed them on things that seem good at first. 
You always show the bright speck and not the worst; 
You care not how much their bodies are defiled. 
Nor for the agony and pains, which set them wild! 

You care not if their lambs come diseased and lame, 
You cast all these things on me as the blame. 
O Satan ! you and your dwelling — this fleshy mind — 
Is the corrupt one, whom Jesus shall bind! 



170 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

How many have you caught by the neck and said, 
**Fear me! for I'm king of the living and the dead!" 
You speak to them a shining, flattering lie, 
And say, "Go eat it up, or else you will die!'* 

How many have you caused, at the age twice eleven. 
To look as though they were forty and seven; 
You bring upon them sorrow, wrinkles and pain, 
And the rosebud of youth completely slain. 
You say unto Adam, *'Fall down at Eve's feet. 
That she gives you her heart, and all that's sweet!" 
This is just what you wanted my Lord Jesus to do, 
Saying, "I'll give all these cattle and kingdoms to you!' 

You know God's will forever shall be 
"Bow down thyself only and forever unto me." 
And Adam, love thine Eve as dearly as thyself; 
But bow not down to "Dianas," and become an elf. 



Oh, feed me on music that is good and sweet! 
Oh, music is all that I care to eat! 
Not only the music of the instrument and voice, 
But music in everything, is of what I rejoice. 

The music of the broom while Biddy sweeps the floor. 
And that on her face, when she meets him at the door; 
The music of the pan while she fries the eggs. 
And the music of Tommy while for an apple he begs. 

The sweet singing of birds as they flit about. 
And the play of children while they laugh and shout; 
The work of the ants and the busy honey-bee. 
And the play of kittens is sweet food to me. 

Yea, the caressing and wrestling of "Biddy and beau"— 
Just like kittens — for true love maketh them so; 
They sit not down and put on airs and airs. 
And lie to each other — as many other pairs! 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 171 

A peculiar little man of the heart I am 

To drink in all that is joyous or calm; 

I enjoy the place where I hear "Gwuck! gwuck!" 

These words are food as well as the duck! 

The voice of the water as it dances along, 
As it begins its journey in brooklets with song; 
Likewise in streamlets do I eat this sound — 
**Knee deep! knee deep! — you'd better go around!** 

I eat the fragrance of flowers and trees, 
The grandeur of hills and vales, yea, all of these. 
I say to my temple, Lie down on the ground, 
While I drink of the moon and stars all around. 

Oh, I love the sound of the shovel and pick, 
The saw and the hatchet, the trowel and brick: 
I say to my temple, Jump in and see 
How much food can be earned for you and me! 

I love to dance in the family home — 
To call in the prodigal, that he no more roam. 
Oh, who shall convince me of sin that it brings. 
When I know to be temperate, yea, in all things? 

The flesh can eat and sleep, and work too much — 
Also the reverse, and extremes in all such; 
I would that you all would mind your own worK, 
Yea, mind your heart, and clean your dirt! 

I love to dance, but note this warning: 
The hour of midnight, and not till morning. 
Not merely to dance, but— learn my wish — 
To go to this stream and invite some "fish." 

Was our dear Lord too stiff and proud 
To associate with all, or afraid of the crowd? 
No! he was not narrow-minded like you — 
Some who seek Moses, the whole life through! 



172 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

Such who are trying to improve the ** strait way" — 
One foot in heaven — hell, the other on the way! 
Oh, repent! and become humble vrhile it is day, 
That Jesus may wash your sins away! 

But above all food the dearest to me 

Comes from an instrument — oh, what can that be? 

It is not the one of man's greatest skill, 

But created by Love — God's own will. 

*Tis the LOVE in the voice, the human voice, 
As it speaks or sings, in which I rejoice; 
There is no harp, with all its strings. 
Can charm as the soul — I — all living things. 

I love to "dance" — play, but not very much — 

Once a month is sufficient of such; 

But let me sing — yea, all day long — 

The Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs. 

I despise all gambling; but love pure play — 
Of most of the games that are used this day. 
The sweetest food that comes to me 
Is those living in love and harmony. 

Oh, how shall the world be won for Christ, 

If ye despise and reject, and crucify him thrice? 

Shall it be won by love, or by the sword? 

Not by the sword — "By the Spirit, saith the Lord!" 

O man, you're in hunger one to another I 
This hunger must be filled by sister and brother. 
If ye wish to enter, go feed them with love. 
And ye shall be twice blest by Love above. 

Yea, holiness awaits you — which is love magnified — 
A thousand times greater than love on this "side"! 
Ye could not bear it in this sinful state; 
It would crush you to earth, so great is its weight! 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 173 

"Oh, why do you speak, and how do you know?" 
My Father revealed this to the writer over a year ago! 
He has pondered and kept these things in his heart; 
And other things, as yet, he dare not impart! 

All comfort that ye find while reading these pages. 
Give all glory to God, and the Rock of ages. 
Honor not the writer — no more than which?— 
Why, the man who is faithfully digging ditch. 



174 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 



CHAPTER VIII. 

VOCATION. 

The apostle Paul says : 

**I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you 
that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherein ye are 
called, 

^^With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuf- 
fering, forbearing one another in love; 

' ' Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the 
bond of peace. 

''There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye ate 
called in one hope of your calling ; 

*'One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 

''One God and Father of all, who is above all, and 
through all, and in you all." 

God has placed each and every one of us in this 
world for a purpose or calling ; and it is our business 
to find out and know what that calling or vocation is 
and means. 

We are all called to do a certain work; and the 
sooner we find out what that work is, the better off 
we will be. 

Our first or only duty is to our Lord and Master. 

Our first great work is to become acquainted with 
ourselves; to know what our God-given powers are, 
and how, and in what direction, we are to use them 
for the glory of God^ and the upbuilding of his king- 
dom. 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 175 

You will find the hardest person to get fully ac- 
quainted with is yourself; and it will take you and 
me all our days to see ourselves a little in the light 
that God looks upon us— not man. 

Not one of us knows our God-given powers in the 
measure that we ought to know. Not one of us has 
the faith, hope and love powers of soul developed as 
the Lord wants them to be. But, thanks be to God, 
the glass through which we see is losing some of its 
smoke and soot, and is becoming as clear as that 
through which the apostles looked. 

Some people get acquainted fairly well with them- 
selves and their calling quite early in life, because 
they seek the truth direct from the word of God, and 
by the intuitive side of their nature— the soul; and feed 
not on forty-second-handed food— lies. Some get ac- 
quainted after many years of hard struggle ; and some, 
it seems, never get acquainted with their soul powers 
and calling, 

God has not called all to be preachers, or doctors, 
or lawyers, or ditch-diggers. No, but we can live the 
Christ life just as well by digging ditch as in any 
other vocation, and sometimes a great deal better. 
Why? Because a true child of God in the ditch has 
a great chance to work among the low^er masses. 

They have the same privilege, and are expected to 
follow out this command of the Lord as well as any 
other man: 

^'Let your light so shine before men, that they may 
see your good works, and glorify your Father which 
is in heaven." 



176 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

Yes, let the Christ light that dwelleth in you, shine ; 
but be careful that it is not the light of educated ig- 
norance, or ignorance educated. 

Let no one who is able to do something, be idle— 
this is a very poor light. Say not, "My work is this 
trade or that, and if I can not get this or that, I will 
steal for a living.'' 

No ! no ! Don't be so blind as that ! For who know- 
eth the will and plan of the Almighty? Oh, happy is 
the man who is allowed to get only a few glimpses or 
grains thereof! 

Do whatever thy hands find to do; and do it 
willingly and gladly. Then before long the Lord will 
show you something better, or the desire of thy heart. 

Remember this one, thing: When the work and the 
time, or the whole task, seems too hard for you, and 
looks too dark for you, then is the time to stick to your 
bush, or take up that work whatever it may be, and 
before long the mist will roll away. For all things 
work together for good to those that love the Lord. 

You may think you have a very pleasant position, 
but before long, behold! it has been taken from you. 
This makes you feel sad and discouraged. It should 
not! Why? Because the Lord has something differ- 
ent or better for you to do ; but he is going to try your 
faith and love awhile first to see if you are worthy of 
it. Therefore he may want you to do a little of what 
the world calls ''poodle" work first. In such times 
as these, dear brother, rejoice, rather than deny and 
curse! If you curse, you lose the blessing which the 
Spirit of the Lord was about to lead you into. But 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 177 

repent ! and after a longer wait and trial, you shall 
receive a blessing. 

Now, therefore, since yonr jfirst position or job has 
been taken from you, why has it been taken from you? 
It is for one of these two reasons: You are worthy 
either to come up higher— or pride and corruption 
shall sit down lower! 

If such a thing has happened you, or will happen 
you, it is well to think of both causes ; but think more 
seriously about the second, and expect little— that ye 
may receive much. 

Oh, why do so many cast the Lord and his teachings 
aside, and try to live on bread alone? It is like sav- 
ing the chaff, and casting away the wheat! 

Also, oh, how much ** educated ignorance'' must 
one unlearn, undo, and cast into oblivion, before one 
can enter the '* strait gate and narrow way, which 
leadeth unto everlasting life;" and before we can call 
this saying of Paul's our own: '^ There is, therefore, 
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ 
Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the 
Spirit.'' 

As I said before, if your first position has been taken 
away on account of one of the above reasons, go out 
and get another of the same kind, or whatsoever you 
can get, no matter how humble it may seem to you; 
and no matter how much your neighbors and acquaint- 
ances may hoot and laugh at you. Have faith in God 
—not blind faith; but that faith which worketh by 
love; and before a great while you will have a chance 
to laugh sweetly at last. '*For he that laugheth last, 
laugheth best." 



178 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

I am not telling you a lie, brother and sister, for 
I know whereof I speak. Of course, you need not 
expect God to bless you if you delight in transgressing 
all his laws. But love the truth, live the truth, speak 
the truth, and shame the devil! 

All things at first may seem to go contrary to you 
while you are casting your bread upon the waters; 
yet, the very one who shall laugh and hoot at you, 
shall be changed and turned completely around, and 
love you, as was the case with Benjamin Franklin's 
wife, when she first met or saw the poor, humble beg- 
gar-boy passing her home on one of the streets of 
Philadelphia, Pa., with his extra ^^rags" under one 
arm, and a loaf or two of bread under the other. This 
is God's way of doing things, and it is marvelous in 
our sight. Why? Because we make clean, and look 
too much on the outside of the ''cup and the platter'' 
to please ^' puffy man"; and the weightier matters of 
the law— judgment, mercy, faith, hope and brotherly 
love— these, these we overlook, and displease God. 

It is true, some who are starving lawyers should 
probably be farmers; some who are teachers should 
be doctors; some who are doctors should have been 
preachers ; and some who are mill- workers should be 
artists; some who are rail-splitters should be states- 
men ; some who are ditch-diggers should be mechanics ; 
some who are preachers should be bankers or horse- 
dealers ; some whp are stenographers should be cooks 
and bakers: and some Avho are mule-drivers should 
be stock-raisers or engineers. And all be done with 
a heart within and God o'erhead. 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 179 

Oh, why is this? Why is it so? Because one-half 
of the people try to call themselves into their voca- 
tion, whether God has created them to fill that place 
or not. They have never asked and said, ^'Lord, what 
wilt thou have me to do?'^ 

I have found the Lord's answer is, *^Seek ye first 
the kingdom of God and his righteousness'' (not 
man's), and the Comforter will direct you what to do. 
(If any one, only a few years ago, would have said 
that I would to-day be writing this book, I undoubt- 
edly would have called him a liar!) 

Some also walk in their own strength with, blind 
faith. This is not the w^orst ! Sometimes, the blind, 
foolish parents want ''John to become a preacher; 
and Jacob, a lawyer; and Lawrence, a doctor; and 
Paul, who is seemingly not very bright, he shall stay 
at home and work in the shop or on the farm ; he may 
become an engineer later on." (I know not what kind, 
whether a civil engineer, or one who runs a one-horse 
engine down in the cellar for the fans of a restaurant, 
or for a laundry.) 

In reality, however, God's w^ill is that Paul shall 
be the preacher; John, a teacher; Jacob, a musician; 
and the w4sh for Lawrence is not changed— he is a 
doctor. 

This is how the fleshy mind tried to run things be- 
fore David was chosen king. They tried to slip into 
the office, as king, one of David's older brothers; but 
the Spirit of God, through Samuel, at that time said 
unto Jesse, the father of these seven older sons as 
they passed before Samuel, ''I have refused this one; 
neither have I chosen this one, nor that one, nor any 



180 ''Ye Shall Enow the Truth, and 

of these. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all 
thy children?^' 

(''I have one more, the youngest, the baby; he is 
at home taking care of the sheep; but we thought it 
not worth the trouble to bring him with us.") 

^* Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him; and 
the Spirit said unto Samuel when he saw David, Arise, 
anoint him : for this is he. And he did, and the Spirit 
of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.'^ 

This is another of the Lord's ways of doing things, 
and it is marvelous in our sight ! 

The following is some more of the blind way: 
**Our Sarah shall become a teacher, and Frances a 
stenographer." But God's will may be that Sarah 
shall become a nurse and Frances a musician. 

"Our Sarah shall marry a man of exceedingly high 
position— a governor or a preacher. Frances shall do 
likewise." Nine chances out of ten, these daughters 
will either be ** birds in a gilded cage," or birds of 
other cages whose husbands turn out to be, or rather 
are, no better in the sight of God than horse-thieves 
and bank-robbers; or these daughters may be left on 
'* papa's hands." 

This is some more contrariness to the will of God! 

''Oh, be not deceived; God is not mocked: for what- 
soever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." 

''God's will, not ours, be done." 

parents ! go say to your children, God has created 
you for a wise, good purpose and with a gifted talent : 
boys, it may be the will of God that one of you is to 
become a preacher, or a teacher, a missionary, a right- 



The Truth Shall Male You Free!' 181 

eous judge on the bench, or a farmer, or a Christly 
physician, or whatsoever His will may be. 

But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his right- 
eousness; and then in his good time and way he will 
lead you into the vocation whereunto ye are called. 
Do whatsoever your hands find to do, until God is 
ready to show you your life's work. It may at first 
be digging ditch, or clerking in a store, or splitting 
rails, sawing wood, digging coal, cutting weeds, or 
herding sheep as King David did. 

Yes, King David rose from the humblest vocation 
to one of the greatest. Why ? Because he was a lover 
of truth and his Creator. David knew what he was 
talking about when he said : 

*^The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord; 
and he delighteth in his way. 

* * Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down : 
for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. 

'*I have been young, and now am old; yet have I 
not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging 
bread. 

''He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is 
blessed.'' 

Go learn more and more of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
the King of kings. Notice how, in his early life, he 
set an example and used the saw, the plane, the 
hatchet and chisel in Joseph's carpenter-shop. 

Therefore, if you are, or will be, the President of 
these United States of America, or of any other 

States, ' ' let the truth and love of Christ dwell in you 
richly, that ye may be able to walk worthily. Do 
everything according to the teachings of our Lord, and 



182 ''Ye Shall Enow the Truth, and 

not after the commandments and doctrines of men; 
of which all are to perish with the using thereof. 

The command of the Lord is partly revealed in these 
lines : 

Be faithful and fearless, 
Kind-hearted and true, 
And thoughtful and harmless — 
As each day is due. 

Be not anxious to-day, 

And fret of the morrow; 
For it may be a day 

To bury thee in sorrow. 

Use the law of brotherly love, 

So much needed to-day. 
Is the message from above, 

That respect of person be at bay. 

Walk worthy of the vocation whereunto ye are 
called, and God will abundantly bless you for it. If 
ye are members of any executive position or vocation, 
walk honestly. Wash not your hands with public 
money, but render unto ^^ Uncle Sam" the things that 
are '^ Uncle Sam's/' and to God the things that are 
God's. A blessing awaits all righteous ones. 

A word on the Monroe doctrine : 

If the Monroe doctrine is not based or built upon 
the Christ-doctrine, then use it not. But what is the 
spirit of the Monroe doctrine? Is it like this? Sup- 
pose three schoolboys (nations), one a big fellow, and 
the other two about the age of ten. The smaller boys 
get into a quarrel on account of making manifest the 
truth to their teacher (Christ). 

A little sister comes in to her teacher crying, be- 
cause smart A had torn her apron from her; and 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 183 

when he saw that she was going to the teacher about 
it, he hit her on the face. 

A and B were called upon to tell how it 

happened. A—— was first asked to tell his story, and 
he said, '^Well, she was always in my way whenever I 
wanted to make the next base [island of gold] ; so 
as I ran past her this time, my hand caught in her 
apron and tore it.'^ (Landing his soldiers in a sister 
country.) 

'^B , what have you to sayf 

*'Well, this is partly true, and also a big lie! She 

seemed to be in A 's way a great deal, that is true; 

but he caught her apron on purpose [landed on her 
shores], and slapped her one square on the face be- 
cause she came in and told you about it. ' ' 

Now, because B has told the truth, A is 

going to seek revenge (contrary to the sermon of Rev. 
Grutzmun). 

A , after school (on the quiet), takes one of 

B 's books and throws it in a puddle of mud, and 

calls him pet names (fires at his ship and ruins it). 

B asks A for equal rights, and wants him to 

pay the damage, or lend him his book a part of the 

time each day following, on account of A 's corrupt 

sowing. 

C , the big duke, is very partial, and has much 

sympathy for A , but none at all for B . (C 

and A have their fingers in a pie.) 

So Mr. C meddles in and says, ^'B , you will 

demand no such a thing as long as I am here ! Jump 

into him, A , and set him in the same puddle with 

his book ; and I will back you ! ' ' 



184 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

Is this the spirit of the Monroe doctrine? No! For- 
ever, no! "Washington, Monroe, Jefferson, and all of 
their time, loved the Lord of love and liberty too well 
to partake of such hellishness ! ! 

Here is the spirit of the Monroe doctrine : That no 
nation, government or combined power shall oppress, 
nor in any manner seek to control the destiny of, any 
of the nations of this hemisphere ; yea, and I will add, 
of the other as well. 

It does not mean that any nation, south of the 
United States, can go over and smite to destruction 
some part of an eastern nation, and then run and say, 
**Save me. Uncle Sam! Save me!" 

No! for Uncle Sam will say, ** Child, be not de- 
ceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a nation 
soweth, that shall it also reap. Go pay your debt, 
and keeps your hands to yourself hereafter!" 

Just as good, old, honest Abraham Lincoln has said, 
in words something like these, '*No nation is good 
enough to rule over the affairs of another." Such is 
not liberty, but slavery. His thought is a reflection 
of the words and truth from Abraham of old, *^Let no 
strife, I pray thee, come between me and thee, for we 
be brethren." 

What business or right has one brother to try to 
rule and run the affairs of another? This is answered, 
and for our good, in the reply made to Peter when he 
asked, **Lord, and what shall this man do?" 

Jesus answered, ^^If I will that he tarry, what is 
that to thee? Follow thou me!" 

Paul reflects the same thing in these words, ^^That 
ye study to be quiet, and do your own business, and 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 185 

work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 
that ye may walk honestly toward them that are with- 
out, and that ye may have lack of nothing. ' ' 

Ohj what a shame ! to have the word of God chopped 
up, and broken up into small verses or paragraphs, 
in places where the expression of a thought does not 
allow it ! Yet it is done merely for the sake of having 
nice, little verses, whether there is any meaning in them 
or not! 

No wonder there are so many disbelievers and in- 
fidels! No wonder people interpret the wrong mean- 
ing, or no meaning, out of the very places where they 
should learn the truth ! For even the above beautiful 
thought, which I quoted from Paul, is chopped into 
two pieces, separating the antecedent from the conse- 
quent ! 

It is like cutting off a dog's tail, and then saying to 
him, *^Here, doggie! here is your tail! You can carry 
it hereafter in your mouth, if you wish ! ' ' 

I shall present to you one great slaughtering-place 
in the New Testament, just as I find it. The para- 
graph to present the thought is cut, slashed, divided 
into many parts, and some parts are fenced in with 
parentheses (), so the animal can not get away; yea, 
and they not being sure whether it is slaughtered 
enough, so that the animal will really die, have locked 
the gate by putting a question mark (?) after it! 

Now notice the second and third paragraphs of the 
following quotation: 

''Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from the 
rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the 
world, are ye subject to ordinances, 



186 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

^^ Touch not; taste not; handle not; 

''Which all are to perish with the using;) after the 
commandments and doctrines of men? 

' ' Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will 
worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; 
not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh." 

In the first verse, Paul asks a question, and it should 
be ended with a question mark. And in that which 
follows, he answers his own Question, and these parts 
should read thus: 

' ' Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from the rudi- 
ments of the world, why, as though living in the world, 
are ye subject to ordinances? 

' ' Touch not ; taste not ; handle not ; of which all are 
to perish with the using ; after the commandments and 
doctrines of men. 

' ' These things have indeed a show of wisdom in will 
worship, and humility; and a neglecting of the body; 
not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.'' 

God only knows how much of the true thought we 
are cheated out of by the transferring and interpret- 
ing from the dead languages into our own ! 

This much I know, that the Bibles we use to-day 
are short of several chapters, compared with Bibles of 
earlier days. 

It may be quite surprising to many of you that some 
of the people of earlier days had the privilege and 
pleasure of reading out of their Bibles 145 chapters 
more than we have, or have ever seen. The names of 
these writers, and the number of chapters are as fol- 
lows: 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 187 

Judith, 16; Solomon, 19; Tobia., 14; Ecclesiastes, by 
the preacher, Sirach, 51 ; Baruch, 6 ; Maccabaer, 31 ; 
and Esther, 8. But, thanks be to God, we are not 
robbed of any of the chapters of the New Testament. 
We are not, as far as I know. 

Coming back again to the subject of vocation, will 
say, if ye are ministers of the gospel, learn to speak 
the whole truth, and live the truth ; and let not one of 
you handle the word of God deceitfully in anything! 
Yea, preach Christ, and him crucified! And come not 
with Moses ''vailified'M 

*' Study to show thyself approved unto God, a work- 
man that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing 
the word of truth. ' ' 

Yea, preach the truth in such a way that thy hearers 
need not, when they go to read the Word, find a part 
of the truth contrary to thy teachings ; and when the 
vail is lifted, they can plainly see— a thief and a rob- 
ber ! 

I speak not to please self-righteous men, but I speak 
to please my Creator and Redeemer! 

Remember, the time has come when nothing but the 
truth will do ; for God is pouring out of his Spirit upon 
all lovers and seekers of truth; and a poor fisherman 
and layman, born of the Spirit, need not necessarily go 
through a ^^roll-milling'' seminary, and pass through 
the rolls of the theologians, in order to correctly inter- 
pret the meaning of the words and teachings of our 
Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ! 

No ! For we have this promise and a host of others : 

*'I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye 
can not bear them now. 



188 ''Ye Shall Enow the Truth, and 

'^Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he 
will guide you into all truth; for he shall not speak 
of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear [from the 
Father], that shall he speak: and he [Spirit] will show 
you things to come. 

'^But, as it is written. Eye hath not seen, nor ear 
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the 
things which God hath prepared for them that love 
him. 

'^But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: 
for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things 
of God. 

''For what man knoweth the things of a man, save 
the spirit of man which is in him ? even so the things 
of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.'* 

*'For there is one God, and one mediator between 
God and men, the man Christ Jesus ; who gave himself 
a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.'* Yea, 
Christ, **the" Rock, is the mediator and not Peter— 
''a" rock of the Rock. 

The Lord said to Paul at the time of his conversion, 
or new birth, **It is hard for thee to kick against the 
pricks" (the two-edged sword of truth). Likewise, 
take ye heed. 

Where did Paul and all the apostles get their true 
understanding of the will of God? 

Paul, who became the great apostle and writer, who 
wrote these beautiful letters to the churches for all 
localities of time and place, said : 

*'For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek 
to please men ? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be 
the servant of Christ* 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 189 

**Btit I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which 
was preached of me is not after man. 

'^For I neither received it of man, neither was I 
taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." 

Therefore, that minister, who can present the faith, 
hope and love of the truth in a plain, common, simple 
way, will be the man who needs not wonder why he 
has to speak to empty pews, while his neighbor brother 
has not even standing-room at his place. No ! for who- 
soever shall preach with the faith that worketh by love, 
of him, before long, will it be said as of Jesus himself, 
^^ Behold, the whole world goeth after him!" 

Neither will he have need to beg of them to come to 
his church and hear him read his sermon ! No ! 
Wouldn't Paul have been a pitiable spectacle, to go 
among the Romans, Ephesians, etc., reading from a 
paper what he had to say to them; and he represent- 
ing and coming in the name of his great Master, of 
whom it was said, ''Never man spake like this man"? 
Why, they would have kicked Paul and his paper out ! 
For he had hard work to get them to listen to him as it 
was; and how much less with a schoolboy's essay. 

Yes, it is true, some must still cling to and rely 
upon some earthly thing. The unseen substance is as 
yet out of their reach. 

The kind, loving, faithful shepherd will no more have 
need to beg for a hearing, than a loved one needs to 
beg of her lover to call at the next appointed time. 
For the spirit of love begetteth love, and they will not 
forget to make their weekly calls; and they will not 
forget also to bring others with them, for they know 



190 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

these shall likewise hear the plain truth, for lack of 
which the soul is starving in many places to-day. 

The good shepherd is not ashamed of any of his 
sheep, no matter of what color they are, nor what the 
kind of wool; but he goeth before them. If some— the 
boys— are playing baseball, he is not ashamed to take 
hold of the bat, or be seen in the midst of them. He 
will join in all their innocent sports, if he is not too 
far advanced in years; even then, his presence as a 
happy observer will do them much good. Here is one 
of the places where the shepherd can become ac- 
quainted with sheep that have no shepherd ; and if he 
has the ^^meek and lowly'' voice, these sheep will take 
to him at that selfsame hour. 

I thank God that there are some such ministers to- 
day. And the most striking truth that ever I heard 
proclaimed from the pulpit by such men, is this: **Tou 
can not do anything to keep hypocrites out of the 
church; they will come in, in spite of everything; but 
you can conduct your church in such a way that you 
can keep men of good principle out of the church- 
such men as do not allow themselves to be driven 
about by every wind and doctrine.'' Yea, even ''the 
salt of the earth" is kept out at times. 

AlsOj ye ministers of the gospel, please do not look 
down upon some poor brother physician who has fallen 
by the wayside— death. I have known some doctors 
who would be up with the sick until the early hours 
of the morning, and then, after getting to bed for one 
hour, would receive another call, forcing them out of the 
bed which they had merely warmed up, to go out again 
into the cold night of zero weather, and sometim.es 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 191 

drive five miles over the rough, frozen roads ; while ye 
ministers could lie comfortably and undisturbed in 
your warm beds until morning. 

Let me tell you a good doctor has no easy time of it 
in this world. Yet why does the average doctor care 
only for the welfare of the patient's body and nothing 
for the soul, and the average preacher the opposite- 
while the dear Lord and the apostles cared for both? 

God pity that supposed minister who must stay in 
his study-room from early Monday morning until late 
Saturday night to prepare a sermon for the Sabbath, 
and then read it ; when, if he have faith, in that hour 
it shall be given him of the Spirit what he shall speak. 

Also, surely it is the will of God that at least some 
of you apostles have the spirit and gift of healing, that 
you may go and help thy brother, the doctor, to do at 
least a little in this direction. 

Let xhe kingdom of God, that is within you, have 
free access to come forth and glorify the Father with 
deeds as well as with words. 

Give thy sisters and brothers, who seem to have ail- 
ments of an incurable nature, a chance to come unto 
you with their long-standing diseases as they did unto 
the early disciples. (Here is another soul-winning 
place.) 

Know ye not that many of these diseases are linger- 
ing before your blind eyes for you to heal through the 
grace of God, and for a manifestation of his great love 
and power? Know ye not, ''To him that believeth, 
all things are possible"? 

Let thy brother, the doctor, have the pleasure of 
hearing that you were chased out of bed once in your 



192 ''Ye Shall Know the Tmth, and 

life, and see how you like true apostleship in its full- 
ness. 

Yea, let thy brother call upon thee, if he has a hope- 
less patient, to see if the God whom you worship, can 
or will do anything for this brother's patient after all 
medicine has failed. Here, you and the doctor have a 
good chance to try God's law of agreement: ''If two 
of you shall agree upon earth as touching anything 
that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my 
Father which is in heaven." 

Jesus also says: '* Verily, verily, I say unto you. He 
that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do 
also ; and greater works than these shall he do ; because 
I go unto my Father. . 

**And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name [believ- 
ing, without a doubt], that will I do, that the Father 
may be glorified in the Son. 

**If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. 

**If ye love me, keep my commandments." 

Why are there so few of these things done to-day? 
Why are there so many failures by those who have 
tried these commandments ? Because of the blind faith, 
and of the infinitesimal amount of true faith, and if 
these things were done for the minister and the doctor 
on the first trial, there would be a dispute as to who 
should have all the praise, honor and glory. Rather 
than to have this foolishness, God orders it otherwise 
as yet.. 

Also, ye doctors, scare not the life out of the people 
with your large-named and contagious diseases. Be- 
hold, some of you have frightened them so badly that 
many imagine they have all kinds of ailments and dis- 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 193 

eases at one time ! You have brought them so far with 
your ignorance or devilishness that many are afraid of 
their own shadow! I shall show you the Lord's way 
in the next chapter. 

There is a great deal more truth than poetry in the 
following words ; but, remember, the poet did not lack 
in composition when he wrote these lines: 

"Drive the nail aright, boys! 

Hit it on the head! 
Strike with all your might, boys, 
While the iron is red!" 

No doubt you all know what happens to a nail, and 
the connections or fastenings of the material, if you 
strike the nail upon any part but the head: so, like- 
wise, is it of any other ^^nail" you wish to drive. If 
you wish to drive it to its place for a good purpose, yuu 
must strike the ^^head." 

Let no one think that, if you and I are in our com- 
mon working clothes, we are not as good and lovable 
in the sight of God as when we are clothed in our best. 

Oh, hoAv many people there are who are so narrow- 
minded and blinded, that they will scarcely recognize 
a man or woman who happens to pass them on the 
streets; either because the latter is poor, or is of a 
different nationality, or clad in common clothing, while 
the former has his chin propped up with a cuff, and is 
in his soft raiment. And the lady, with her silks and 
laces, and embroideries of gold, may be afraid of walk- 
ing by the side of her sister who is in common clothes, 
for fear the dangling skirts may come together, and 
the finery be tarnished, or from fear of others seeing 
them, or from some other devilish cause. 



194 'Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

Listen to what I shall say untc you ! If ye love and 
salute your kind only, what do ye more than those 
whom the world calls *'Da^os/^ and what reward have 
ye? Do not even these brethren the same, yea, even 
more ? 

Behold the signs of the times ! 

Some w4ves are so proud and high in heart that they 
are ashamed to walk the streets with their own hus- 
bands, if they should happen to meet them coming 
home from work, while they are also on the way home 
from shopping; simply because the husband has an 
unclean face and hands, and is in his working attire ! 

But some are not ashamed to go to the office and 
draw the pay for them, and spend it lavishly upon 
themselves. And then they wonder why ''John'' is 
so disgusted at times, and comes home drunk! 

Remember, our sins will find us out! If ''John" 
comes home disgusted or drunk, then is when he needs 
your sympathy and love, and not the broomstick or 
poker, nor even your tears ; for tears in this case would 
be to him as bitter as gall and wormwood, and would 
make matters ten times worse. Come with the greatest 
thing in the world— lave: for love is the only cure. 

I suppose if some of these poor husbands would 
once, only for a joke, go to the table and eat their 
supper with unwashed hands, as they do their dinners, 
it would be necessary to call upon the physician or the 
funeral director; simply because they fulfilled^ once 
in their life at home, these words of the Lord: "Do 
not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at 
the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the 
draught? 



The Truth Shall Make You Free/' 195 

''But those things which proceed out of the mouth 
come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 

*'For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, mur- 
ders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, 
blasphemies : 

''These are the things which defile a man: but to 
eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.'' 

You all have heard this old adage, '* Cleanliness is 
next to godliness/' This is both a great truth, and 
a great lie ! If you think this old saying means that 
you must make lily-white and clean only **the outside 
of the cup and the platter," then your belief is built 
upon rock-powder! 

I feel it is my duty to change this old saying by 
taking out the rock-powder, and making it to read, 
"Cleanliness of heart is godliness." 

Therefore walk ye worthy of the vocation whereunto 
ye are called, with all lowliness, and meekness, with 
longsuffering, forbearing one another in love. 



196 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 



CHAPTER IX. 

PROPHECY ; OR, A PEEP INTO THE FUTURE, AND SOME 
MORE ROCK-POWDER EXPLODED. 

Paul says: '^Follow after charity, and desire spirit- 
ual gifts, but rather that ye prophesy. 

**For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue, speak- 
eth not unto men, but unto God; for no man under- 
standeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mys- 
teries. 

*'But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edi- 
fication, and exhortation, and comfort. 

'*He that speaketh in an unknoAvn tongue edifieth 
himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church." 

There is a no more needed prophecy to-day and for 
all times than the one%vhich Jesus spoke to the woman 
at the well of Samaria : 

'* Behold, the hour cometh, and now is, when the true 
worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in 
truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 

*'God is a spirit: and they that worship him must 
worship him in spirit and in truth." 

Behold, the day cometh when all shall know that hell 
does not only mean six feet of earth, or a literal or 
common fire that shall burn up the wicked, and thus 
make an end of them. No, that would be a sweet hell 
compared with what Jesus has revealed by word and 
spirit 1 



Tlie Truth Shall Male You Freer 197 

Hell is a burning- place of torment for all unbeliev- 
ing, unrepenting consciences— souls; where there is 
weeping and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, until the 
time of restitution of all things ; and throughout eter- 
nity after the second death. 

Heaven is the extreme reverse— everlasting peace 
and holiness. 

Behold, the day cometh when the home library shall 
consist of only a few books, of which the chief and 
foundational book will be the Bible; for all worldly 
knowledge shall vanish away. 

Behold, the time cometh when all shall know that 
the Spirit of the Lord has great diversities and ways 
of manifestation, but one Spirit only. 

Behold, the day cometh when all nations shall hear 
and understand each other in their own language- 
just as soon as they quit building the great modern 
Tower of Babel. 

Behold, the day cometh when all shall know at least 
what some of the things mean which they have been 
taught from their youth up, out of their Catechism; 
and will know that the weightier matters of God's law 
are revealed in the following question and answer : 

Q.— ^^How many persons are there in the Godhead?" 

A.—* 'There are three persons in the Godhead, the 
Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost ; the same in sub- 
stance, equal in power and glory." 

theologians! preachers! teachers! parents! realize 
and know what mighty things ye are teaching to the 
children and generations! 

Oh, realize and know that ye are teaching them 
things— thoughts of God— many times greater than 



198 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

what many of you are ready to admit, believe, or re- 
ceive yourselves! 

Let me repeat that Catechism answer again: 

A.—** There are three persons in the Godhead, the 
Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost ; the same in sub- 
stance, equal in power and glory/' 

Think and realize what that means for all those born 
of the Spirit— Holy Ghost! 

** Jesus answered thena, Is it not written in your law, 
I said, Ye are gods? 

*'If he called them gods unto whom the word of God 
came, why say ye of me, whom the Father hath sancti- 
fied, and sent into the world. Thou blasphemest, be- 
cause I said, I am the Son of God?" 

Yes, it means the Comforter is— God with us; or we, 
through the Spirit, become the sons of God. 

Paul reflects the same thing in these words: '*For 
as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the 
sons of God. 

**And if children [or sons], then heirs, heirs of God, 
and joint-heirs with Christ ; if so be that we suffer with 
him, that we may be also glorified together." 

Now, since we know our relation to God, and the 
power of the Comforter— God with us— then surely the 
Spirit has the power to ward off all of the devil's 
shadowy germs and diseases. 

Behold, the time cometh when there shall not be one- 
tenth the sickness and disease that there is at present. 

Yea, the time shall come when there will be more 
diseases and pestilences for all those who walk after 
their own craftiness, who delight to trangress the laws 
of God. 



The Truth Shall Make You Free,'' 199 

Behold, the day cometh when all those who truly 
iseek and love the Lord, shall have no fear and need 
not dread any contagious diseases, any more than they 
cfread their own shadow in the sunlight. 

Yea, these things are only shadows in the light of the 
Son. Did Jesus say to his seventy disciples, when he 
sent them out to heal all manner of diseases, *^I want 
3^ou to go out and heal these people; but don't go to 
a house where there is fever! Don't go to a place 
where there is smallpox! Don't go to a place where 
there is diphtheria! and don't go to a place where they 
have quinsy; but go out and cure toothache, rheuma- 
tism, measles, mumps, the lame, the blind and a few 
other sores"? 

No ! no ! Jesus never said such a thing ! There are 
no such things, in the light and sight of the Spirit of 
the Lord, as contagious diseases! It is the corrupt, 
fleshy mind that is contagious! It is educated igno- 
rance that is contagious! It is a faithless and perverse 
generation that is contagious ! It is, as Jesus called it, 
**the lusts and deeds of your father the devil"— the 
untruth in everything— that is contagious! 

These things, and every other thing that maketh a 
lie, are the material of which our Lord Jesus shall 
build his footstool, and draw it under his feet! 

May God hasten us and quicken us by the Spirit, 
while we work in his vineyard, that we keep gathering 
up this material that the Lord may soon be able or 
ready to say, *'It is finished! It is finished!" And 
let Gabriel give the signal! 

Let these things— this truth—stare you in the face! 
It can not shock you any more than it did me, the day 



200 ''Ye Shall Know the Truth, and 

it was whispered to me by the unseen power— the 
Spirit ! 

Woe unto me if I write not the things that are in 
this book! *'For he that knoweth to do good, and 
doeth it not, to him it is sin!" 

Remember, our sins will find us out I ! 

Ye physicians, who search after the flesh, yea, search 
through and through the flesh into the marrow of the 
bones, seeking to know the mystery of life, and find it 
not, know ye not that this mystery is not revealed in 
the body of the dead, but in the Book of Life— Christ! 

For he has said, ^^It is the Spirit that quickeneth; 
the flesh profiteth nothing : the words that I speak unto 
you, they are spirit, and they are life." (For here and 
hereafter.) James says, ^^For as the body without the 
spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." 

Had the Book of life been searched as eagerly and 
diligently as the *^book" of flesh, it would have been 
revealed. C^Oh, taste and see that God is good.") 

Which of you, with all your advertised, compounded 
''quacks," can quicken and bring to life again any 
one who is dead, even as unlearned Peter, Paul, or 
some of the other apostles, did? 

In reality, w^hich is the greatest healing agency in 
your practice to-day— your medicines, or the spirit of 
faith in your patients, believing you are able and can 
cure them? Yet no man can cure, but nature, and na- 
ture's God. He doeth the work. For Paul said, '^I 
have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the in- 
crease. So then, neither is he that planteth anything, 
neither he that watereth; but God that giveth t!ie In- 
crease." 



The Truth Shall Make You Free'' 201 

How much good will your medicines do a patient 
who has no faith in you at all ? You know the results ! 

Think not, dear brothers, that I cast a great blame 
on you! No! no more than on any other man! I 
speak these things to show the Christ-plan of healing ; 
and that there are, as yet, many things undone which 
must be done, before the Lord's prayer is fulfilled. 

It is true this material age must cling to some earthly 
thing which it can see ; like unto a baby that clingeth 
to a chair while learning to walk ; nowadays the faith 
of people is small, too small to cling to the *' unseen 
substance" and rely on the kingdom of God that is 
within them. 

It is surprising and laughable, yea, pitiable indeed, 
to see some burning all the bed-clothes and other things 
of a person who has had the fever, diphtheria or small- 
pox; and these persons dressed in protecting Saul-ar- 
mor suits, with their faces bare, or in such a shape as 
to allow free access for breathing, and also to all the 
supposed dreaded germs ! 

Yet, they go about it very contented and satisfied; 
simply because they have some earthly contrivance 
wrapped about them— their armor of blind faith— or 
on their Tower of Babel for fear of the next flood ! 

If medicines are of any prevention in this direction, 
you should, with all the different kinds that exist to- 
day, have banished all the diseases out of the land— as 
the saying of old St. Patrick and the snakes of Ireland ! 

But what have we to-day? The greater the amount 
of medicine, the greater the number of diseases— and 
cowards! This is another great contrariness to the 
will of God, and to the Christ cause. 



202 'Te Shall Know the Truth, and 

What shall we do about it? Shall we take away these 
chairs from the babies who are learning to walk, and 
let them fall with their faces to the floor? That is, 
shall we take away all these medicines, proprietary and 
ofBcinal remedies, etc^, from the people and let them die ? 
No ! oh, no ! That would be cruel and narrow-minded 
indeed ! 

We must let them have the use of these ** chairs" 
until they have learned and are able to walk by faith ; 
then will they push the ' ' chairs ' ' aside themselves, and 
run to glorify their Father which is in heaven. Then 
will the New Covenant medicine become sufficient for 
them. 

Behold, the day is not far off when all shall rejoice 
and say: ** Vaccination is just as much a preventative 
from smallpox, as did the child-slaughtering decree, of 
foxy King Herod, entrap the Holy Child Jesus." 

Behold, the day cometh when all shall realize and 
know that the silver, the gold, the cattle, the grains, 
and all that is in the earth, belong to the Lord; and 
these things are only put into our hands for our care 
and keeping and proper use, and not for selfish desire, 
but for the betterment of all, as long as we live on the 
earth ; for the earth is the Lord 's,, and the fullness 
thereof. Then shall they know that the miserly hoard- 
ing of silver and gold, the accruing of houses and lands, 
and the filling up of fleshy lusts, were never intended 
to satisfy that longing in the human breast. 

Behold, the day cometh again when the physician 
and minister shall say unto the diseased and lame, 
** Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give 



The Truth Shall Make You Free," 203 

I thee: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise 
up and walk." 

Behold, the day cometh when supposed lovers will 
not fill up with jealousy, and kill this one or that one 
because he or she does not love them more than a 
friend, and not in that fulness which is absolutely nec- 
essary for two whose hearts are united ; but then shall 
they know that these were never intended for them, 
but for some one else. Yea, and how many have been 
thankful that God's will was otherwise— those who 
were led by the Spirit into undreamed-of expectations. 

Behold, the time cometh when all shall know that the 
Lord our God blesseth all according to their right- 
eousness, in true faith and love, and for no other cause 
on our part. 

Behold, the time cometh when all those that walk 
after the things of the Spirit can say or speak, as it 
were, through a wireless telephone by the Spirit, and 
say to his brother-friend, who lives in the other end 
of the city, or in some other place, ''In the name of 
Jesus, come over to my house, or meet me at such a 
place!'' 

Then shall that one say to his family, * ^Behold, I 
hear and see, through the Spirit, the face of Brother 
Future, and he calleth me!" Yea, and many other 
things. 

(Everything is a *'hard saying, and who can bear 
it" for each day and generation as they are given?) 
Even Columbus had a ''hard saying, and who can bear 
it," when he said in his day, "The earth is round." 
What did those people do unto him? They spake all 
manner of evil against him falsely, and pointed their 



204 ''Ye Shall Know the^ Truth, and 

fingers to the head, which was an insinuation, meaning, 
**Tou are crazy." 

Now, where did Columbus get this thought-truth 
that the earth is round? Who engraved it upon his 
heart and soul that this was and is the truth ? 

It is God who engraves the truth upon the hearts of 
men, either direct, or through other means, never to 
be erased. 

Columbus proclaimed this truth to the world many- 
years before he was given the opportunity to prove the 
truth ; and during those years the world tried to erase 
the engraving which was upon his heart, but they only 
caused the truth to become more deeply engraved. 
It is plainly seen that they had no faith in what he 
said, else they would not have given him '^jail birds'' 
for sailors to sail the unknown ''sea of darkness.'' 

And now, in conclusion, I would have you know that 
I am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet ; but that 
which has been revealed to me, God is willing to show 
to any other child of his, yea, and a great deal more, 
if you are a lover of truth and humanity, and go about 
these things in the proper way. I consider myself no 
better than any other man, neither do I consider any 
other man better than myself. Of course, there are some 
who are given five talents, while to the rest of us only 
one or two are given, but that does not make them any 
better than what we are, but it should make them more 
useful, because much is given them. 

Keep this thought in mind : 

A Murderous Saul To-day can Become a Gracious 
Paul To-morrow. (In this generation they ''become" 
the rope or the lynch instead of gracious Pauls.) 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 205 

For the want of truth, faith is lost — 
For the want of faith, love is lost — 
For the want of love, hope is lost — 
For the want of hope, home is lost — 
For the want of home, joy is lost — 
For the want of joy, life is lost — 
For the want of life, heaven is lost — 
And all for the want of Christ, the Truth. 

Also, when I think of the following words of Jesus, 
they are enough to cast out all the puffiness that is in a 
person : 

''And he said unto him. Why callest thou me good? 
there is none good but one, that is, God; but if thou 
wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.'' 

If Jesus, while here on earth, going about doing good, 
taught that he had nothing whereof to glory while in 
the flesh, when and whereat does the chance come in for 
little, puffy man to glory, while in the same perishable 
body? 

I would also have you know that all the ''hard say- 
ings'' which are used in this book, are given for your 
future good and God's glory; and to awaken you to the 
fact that there is a God in Israel— the New Jerusalem. 

A God who is no respecter of nationality, creed, fam- 
ily, sex or person. This is plainly seen and made mani- 
fest ; for the Jews were not God's chosen people because 
they were Jews, but as a blessing; and the promise 
made unto Abraham, for his righteousness by faith, be- 
cause he was a Jew. 

They are now no more God's chosen people than 
what we are, because many of them ceased to do right- 
eousness. ' ' Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath 



206 *'Te Shall Enow the Truth, and 

not the Father: but, he that acknowledgeth the Son, 
hath the Father also." 

The woman who belonged to a class of people they 
called **dogs,'' had the same right to receive the bless- 
ing as the Jews or we ; on account of her righteousness 
imputed to her by **0 great is thy faith." 

No wonder Peter said, '*0f a truth I perceive that 
God is no respecter of persons : but in every nation he 
that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is ac- 
cepted with him." 

He also said, ^'If any man suffer as a Christian, 
[not a Protestant or a Roman C], let him not be 
ashamed ; but let him glorify God on this behalf. For 
the time is come that judgment must begin at the house 
of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end 
be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" 

And now let us hear the conclusion of the whole 
matter. Get your heart and mind in harmony with 
God, and your body will fall in line. Present the truth 
to the world and the Lord will take care of it and us. 

Love the Lord our God with all our hearts, souls, and 
strength; and our neighbors as ourselves: this is the 
Lord's new commandment. 

Be ye temperate in all things ; work with your own 
hands, and do your own business : this is the entire duty 
of man. 

I shall answer all questions that arise from reading 
this book, but will answer them now! Go to Jesus 
and the apostles for all answers; search again this 
''thimble-full"— this book which is before you! 



The Truth Shall Make You Freer 207 

If Tve helped you to bear one burden in life, 
And brought you some peace, and cease of strife. 
By speaking the truth, oh, tell it, I pray, 
To thy neighbors when they call some day! 

Oh, lend it to those, thy neighbors, next door. 
And write to those far from thy shore. 
Do good, be true, that you may have ease — 
Then you will be doing whatever you please. 

Know ye that the saints shall judge the earth, 
By straight'ning the path of the Lord with mirth? 
Then judge not this book by reading a few pages. 
But judge righteous judgment from all its stages. 

Yea, do these things as a token of love 

For Him on whom was sent the heavenly Dove. 

I can not do much in this great woods, 

For I am naked and poor in this world's goods; 

But I shall receive the necessities of life, 
By cutting some weeds of envy and strife. 
I am sorry indeed for all those who do — 
Those who condemn what I have written to you. 

But whosoever will, can hoot and howl; 

If they wish, they can crow, or bark and growl. 

And show their ignorance, plain and clear. 

Of the Spirit of the Lord. Forgive them here. 

Not unto us, O Lord, but to thy name, 
I ascribe all the glory and honor and fame. 
I have tried to bring back all glory to Thee, 
Which some have been taking away, I see. 

For thine is the kingdom, and tlie power, and the 
glory, forever. Amen. 

THE END. 



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